Velocity A23 700c Wheel Set

Description

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.

These are solid classic road wheels that will ride smooth and hold up for a really long time.

Description:

The Velocity A23 rim offers plenty of inner rim width, (17.5mm), and a strong rim profile that has proven its utility for at least the past two decades, all at a modest 460g. If you’re looking for an excellent, “all around” type wheel set that you can live with and not have to worry about, these are a fantastic option.  Select the Shimano 105 hub upgrade option, and you’re on your way to building a wheel set that can last you well in to the next decade.  Given their performance, strength, flexibility, and reliability, these wheels offer a tremendous value.

The base hub option are Shimano Sora RS300’s.  They’re plenty good, and will get you from point A to B and back.  Like all Shimano hubs, they’re relatively easy to live with over the years, if you take the time to learn some basic maintenance skills. That being said, we’re offering to build these rims with Shimano 105 hubs, or our silky smooth Pure RT sealed bearing road hubs. For a lot of folks, this next step up might make a lot of sense, just depends on what your perspective is.

Whether you select the base hub option or one of the optional upgrades, your wheels will be built with DT Swiss 2.0mm straight gauge stainless spokes with brass nipples.  You do have the option to select silver or black hubs/spokes, to customize the overall appearance of your wheel set.  All Velocity A23 rims have a black ano finish, CNC sidewall for rim brakes, and a presta valve.  Thanks for looking.

More Wheel Facts:

-Velocity A23 26 clincher rims have a sleeved joint, are 19.5mm tall, with a 17.5mm inner, 23mm outer width, and weigh approx. 460g/ea.  The rims come with Velox 16mm cloth rim tape, but it is not installed.  These rims are designed to work with inner tubes, (presta) and clincher tires.

-Compatible with a wide range of tires, 700 x 23c – 38c will all work.

-The wheels are built with internal stainless steel washers

Wheels ship with a set of QR levers, 105 and RT hubs ship with their 11 speed spacer, and all wheels ship with Velox 16mm cloth rim tape, (not installed).

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

Velocity A23 Clincher Specs

Wheel Weights

(without QR’s or rim tape)

• All options include rim tape and QR levers.

Where is Your Wheel Set Weight?

Not all wheel weight is equal. This is an 1800g wheel set with a 32 / 32 (or 36/36) spoke count may 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 rim profile with purposeful wall thickness.  So the rim is light weight, but not flimsy.  The utilization of 3D shaped internal stainless steel nipple washers that match Sapim’s Polyax nipples mean that where the rim is doing the most work, at each spoke hole, we’re increasing the surface area in which the work is conducted.  This reduces rim stress, reduces the likelihood of rim cracking, while promoting rim life.  Expect these wheels to feel better, and last longer than your current mid 15-1600g wheel set now.