Mavic Open Pro 700c Wheel Set

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At I Know A Guy Bicycles, our “Trusted Partners” are more than just brands—they are vetted small businesses that represent the heart and soul of the cycling industry.

I choose to partner with people who take immense pride in their craftsmanship and who live by the same rule my dad taught me back in his shop: “If you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all.” In a world of mass-produced, “good enough” gear, these partners are true gems. They prioritize quality and longevity over quick sales, ensuring that when I recommend a product to you, it’s a product I’d trust on my own family’s bikes.

Trusted Partner: Bicycle Wheel Warehouse

Bicycle Wheel Warehouse is designed to offer a new dimension in the online market for enthusiast riders, aiming to meet cyclists’ need for high-quality wheels at affordable prices. We specialize in offering wheels that use component specifications that make sense, rather than wheels assembled from miscellaneous parts.

Our wheels differ from many other wheels available online. All of our wheels are 100% built in-house by hand, checked, and rechecked for proper spoke tension and wheel trueness. Compare our wheels with those offered by other websites that often purchase wheels and parts at close-out auctions from overseas factories and repackage them for sale in the U.S. as quality products.

The Mavic Open Pro long held a decades long distinction as The best road rim available, period.  It’s reign at the apex of rim tech was only dethroned when aero emerged in the mid 00’s, and carbon fiber became accessible in the marketplace.

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The ubiquitous Mavic Open Pro has served the wheel world faithfully over the years/decades as the benchmark for quality construction and performance.  While its name has changed over the years, the Mavic Open Pro’s role and ability to perform over tens of thousands of miles remains constant.  Indeed, you could do very little to find a much worse wheel option as compared to a wheel set built with these legendary rims.

So why is a comparison between a wheel set built with Mavic Open Pros and virtually any other rim almost like comparing apples to oranges?  Due to the fact that almost always Open Pros are found built in to 32 hole front and rear wheel sets.  That, and due to the fact that if an Open Pro had a single stainless eyelet instead of full double stainless eyelets (a rare bird these days), the rim would weigh a solid 15-18g less, and would be in DT Swiss RR415 territory, while still offering a stronger alloy material composition.  Overall the Mavic Open Pro rim is very light weight (approx. 435g), features precision machined side walls for excellent stopping power, as well as full double stainless steel eyeleted spoke holes for better spoke support and longevity.

Upgrading to Mavic Open Pro / Ultegras is about investing in yourself and your sport, this combination of components is the absolute quintessential balance between performance (measured in years) and quality, that anyone could possibly ask for.  While we recognize the Open Pro’s indelible impression upon the road cycling community, we will not be replacing these rims as we use them up.  Road is transitioning to disc, and we have plenty of non-disc road rims that we’re still excited to work with.  That being said, if you find a set of these at your door, we hope you’ll love them as much as we do.

*Wheels will ship with QR levers and Velox 16mm cloth rim tape.

Mavic Open Pro Clincher Specs

• All options include rim tape and QR levers.

Where is Your Wheel Set Weight?

Not all wheel weight is equal. This is an 1800g(ish) wheel set with a 32 / 32 (or 36/36) spoke count built with strong, light weight  rims, spokes, and hubs, compared to a lot of other “race” wheel sets with lower spoke counts. When you lower a wheel set’s spoke count, you run the risk of decreasing durability, as well as lateral stiffness, (the wheels could flex and rub with the brakes).  So a lot of times the solution is to use a really heavy rim, which can result in wheels that tend to feel a dull, or lethargic.  These wheels start with the use of a superior, designed and engineered rim profile with purposeful wall thickness, materials, and function.  So the rim is light weight, but not flimsy; indeed the Open Pro is much stronger than many other competing rims of the same relative rim weight.  Expect these wheels to feel solid, lively through the bars, and hold up for tens of thousands of miles.