Easton Circuit

Price Paid:  $0.00 at Supergo Bike Shop

Favorite Ride:
Anywhere outside

Bike Setup:
Motobecane Immortal (Shimano Ultegra drive train everything else after market carbon)

Summary:
What can I say about these hoops? Lets see; I weigh in at 230lbs, I use them for everything, I've had them for four years (they came on my Schwinn FastBack Team), they have over 9000 miles and for the first time last week I noticed a small play in the cassette body. I called Easton and in two days I had an new cassette body ($25), slaped it on and looking forward to another 9000 miles. Never had a need to true the rim nor have I replaced any spokes.

Strengths:
Just about everything

Weaknesses:
Cheesy decals

Similar Products Used:
American Classic Victory (no way near as good)
Mavic Open CD
Mavic CP33

Price Paid:  $250.00 at Bike Nashbar

Favorite Ride:
Any with friends

Bike Setup:
2003 Trek 2300, 63cm
Components in user profile

Summary:
Bought these on special plus a coupon when Bike Nashbar was clearing them from their inventory. I've used them for three years, and logged around 4,000 miles on them. Have only needed to true them once. These are well-built wheels.

Strengths:
Light, and yet strong enough to hold a 200lb rider. They stay true. The best set of wheels for a budget price that you can think of.

Weaknesses:
Snobs will turn their noses up at you for not spending three times the price on a set of boutique wheels.

Similar Products Used:
Bontrager Race Lite, Alex rims with 105 hubs, Mavic Open Pros with Ritchey hubs, Araya rims with Shimano 600 (freewheel) hubs

Price Paid:  $365.00 at eBay

Favorite Ride:
Lake Mascoma loop, Enfield, NH

Bike Setup:
2006 Specilized Allez. Mix of Durace, Ultegra,105 groups. Spec. All Condition Pro tires. FSA SLK post, Energy bars, OS99 stem. 18lbs.

Summary:
I've ridden these wheels about a dozen times so far. Only about 200 miles put on them and relatively easy miles at that. All in all I love them. The rear is a little out of true..about 1mm. This happened after the first couple of rides. I didn't hit anything and I rode easy as I was recovering from knee surgery. So that was slightly disappointing. I'm sure its a new wheelset issue..and with a little truing they'll be fine for 1000s of miles. Relatively light, though slighly more than stated. Reasonably stiff for how i ride..no racing..just training. And, seem to climb very well.

Strengths:
Solid feel. Stiff but forgiving on rough sections. Quiet freehub. Look great! Bearings are some of the smoothest I've felt.

Weaknesses:
A little out of true in the back after 2 easy rides.

Price Paid:  $250.00 at Ebay

Favorite Ride:
Hills

Bike Setup:
Lugged steel frame, mostly Dura Ace equipped

Summary:
I have the Velomax Circuit wheels which are the same as the Eastons. I have found them to be excellent wheels. I have hit innumerable potholes at speed, and they never went out of true. The hubs are still like new, and the rear hub is very quiet which I really like.I would recommend these to anyone who wants a tough set of reasonably light wheels for every day training.

Strengths:
Bombproof, quiet hubs, not too expensive, look nice

Weaknesses:
None really. The Velomax came with too many decals??

Similar Products Used:
Mavic Open Pro with Ultegra hubs, Mavic Ksyriums (noisy)

Price Paid:  $0.00

Favorite Ride:
7 mile hill

Bike Setup:
Scott CR1 Pro. wheels came with bike.

Summary:
I would agree with most of the previous reviews that these wheels stay true and are very strong except for one thing. The free hub. Mine has broken after just six months. I took it apart and it looks like a small keeper ring that holds the pawls in place has broken. Probably won't cost much to fix if I can find the part but still just six months! I noticed one other reviewer had a similar problem so maybe this is an issue with these.

Strengths:
cost, weight, speed

Weaknesses:
freehub

Similar Products Used:
Mavic Open Pro and Kysrium.