Aero/V-section rims

[yagamuffin]

I remember back in early/mid nineties there were some cheapish (relative to Mavic et al) and colourful v-section rims available.

I have recently come across Velocity rims and they are ringing bells(!).
According to Mombat's timeline Velocity had a rim available in 1996 named Aeroheat, I see on their website that it is still available.

Does anyone know anything about them? Is this the same design that they did 16 years ago?

And more generally, are aero or v-section rims any good?

Cheers

 

[hamster]

The others I remember are Campagnolo K2 - the deep rim made them very strong, if a little heavy.

I think the aero bit is somewhat optimistic, but if you keep breaking rims...

 

[was8v]

I have a mid 90's Velocity Aeroheat rim built onto a black LX parralax hub, cost me a tenner in the late 90's from a bike shop closing down sale.

Was yellow, but I painted it black some years ago.

Hard to say what the benefit it - perhaps they are strong? Theya re pretty heavy though, and if theres one place a bit of weight makes a big difference its the rims.....

 

[andrewl]

They look good on the right bike. I have a few black ones and an old red anno one too. They are on the heavy side but pretty bomb proof.

 

[suburbanreuben]

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... y+aeroheat

 

[T'boo Ted]

I had one of the very early velocity rims from '92 (from memory the 1st rims they made but could be wrong), it had a bit of an aero section, but not as much as their later offerings and it was super narrow.

*edit, @Andrewl, could even be still hanging of the back of that DB apex, unless it ended up in a skip.

 

[legrandefromage]

Makes an LTS look different: