HED Ardennes Plus (Belgium Plus) Tubeless or Ritchey Zeta 2- Anyone Have Experience?

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Heidbrier on August 10, 2014 at 9:56pm

I can only speak from a builders stand point. The Hed are great. They build up super well. They are very stiff. Several customers are big guys and have not had issues. 

Good luck

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Permalink Reply by Michael Diehl on August 11, 2014 at 8:12am

Any idea if the HEDs perform reliably when set up tubeless for 'cross?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Wood on August 11, 2014 at 2:22pm

I have a Belgium+ setup tubeless for my road/adventure bike with many miles on the dirt done. It's a 32 spoke and once I'd had it re-tightened (Competitive Cyclist build around a Powertap G3 hub got real loose non-drive-side with just a few miles riding!!) it has been bulletproof. During re-tighten it was noted that the rims did not allow much exit angle on the spokes so they have some bend to them - which might've contributed to the loosening - or really the lack of correct tightening from the start.

I used wide Stans tape. At least for the road these rims make wide tires WIDE!

[On my cross bike I have Iron Cross tubeless and love it.]

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