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As with a lot of stuff, you get what you pay for.
It's worth a visit to Condor in Holborn, if only to drool at bike porn.
I did look at their hand built wheels, made like items of jewellery, and I'm sure if I was the sort of cyclist that rode a lightweight bike on smooth roads, that could justify that sort of quality then I'd buy them, but I'm a jobbing cyclist that rides on real roads and therefore went with the hand-built wheels from Spa. They have now been on the bike for 35,000 miles with no dings and no broken spokes.
Condor hand built wheels were good when Monty built them but he has long retired. Don't know what they are like now. I have a few sets he built back in the mid 90s. Still going strong and true although I now ride on disc brake rims with Rohloff hub built by Bicycle Ambulance in Cambridge. Very strong and still true the day they were built 3-4 years ago.
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