I'm building two wheelsets to swap between my two bikes, (which hopefully wont take much derailleur tuning when swapping) one more bike park descending oriented, probably in the 30ish inner width range, cush cores front and rear, etc..
my other set though i'll splurge a bit more for, I'm thinking an XC/trail oriented set, in the 1500 gram or ideally less range. more for those days where i'm doing long rides, not smashing stuff at 10/10ths etc.. and races. it'll spend most its time on my short travel bike. I want carbon rims for their snappy responsive feel.
Anyway, i wanted to see what people thought about doing different widths front and rear, and possibly 28 spokes front, 32 rear. I'll probably be running EXO 2.5 dhf front, 2.3 DHR or Aggressor rear, or hopefully i find a lighter combo that doesnt give up much in grip.
I was thinking 28-30 front and around 23-25 rear for width, the only issue I could see with that is most companies narrower wheels I would think are going to be more XC oriented and weaker than their wider options, where i kind of need the front to be at least as if not stronger than the front. One option could be to run a lightweight insert.
I'm looking at the NOX skyline rear, and teocalli front rim, or the We Are One Revive rear Faction front. I'm definitely leaning towards the we are ones.
I'm trying to think of what you're looking for out of the front vs rear tire, a more square profile with a wide rim in the front and rounder profile with a narrower rim in the rear makes sense, I just wonder if it would get to a point where leaning the bike enough to get the rear knobs to bite, would be past the point where the fronts are biting and you'd lose the front? A lot of rear tires dont have that pronounced channel that a DHF does to where you NEED to have the bike leaned a lot to get it to grip, but something like a DHR might? You'd probably have to be pretty committed to a narrower width tire in the rear as well, running a 2.5 might not work so great.
my other set though i'll splurge a bit more for, I'm thinking an XC/trail oriented set, in the 1500 gram or ideally less range. more for those days where i'm doing long rides, not smashing stuff at 10/10ths etc.. and races. it'll spend most its time on my short travel bike. I want carbon rims for their snappy responsive feel.
Anyway, i wanted to see what people thought about doing different widths front and rear, and possibly 28 spokes front, 32 rear. I'll probably be running EXO 2.5 dhf front, 2.3 DHR or Aggressor rear, or hopefully i find a lighter combo that doesnt give up much in grip.
I was thinking 28-30 front and around 23-25 rear for width, the only issue I could see with that is most companies narrower wheels I would think are going to be more XC oriented and weaker than their wider options, where i kind of need the front to be at least as if not stronger than the front. One option could be to run a lightweight insert.
I'm looking at the NOX skyline rear, and teocalli front rim, or the We Are One Revive rear Faction front. I'm definitely leaning towards the we are ones.
I'm trying to think of what you're looking for out of the front vs rear tire, a more square profile with a wide rim in the front and rounder profile with a narrower rim in the rear makes sense, I just wonder if it would get to a point where leaning the bike enough to get the rear knobs to bite, would be past the point where the fronts are biting and you'd lose the front? A lot of rear tires dont have that pronounced channel that a DHF does to where you NEED to have the bike leaned a lot to get it to grip, but something like a DHR might? You'd probably have to be pretty committed to a narrower width tire in the rear as well, running a 2.5 might not work so great.
