wow... Mac.. you are a bad ass... How you come to know all this stuff? anyways i've been trying to search for perfect set of rims (inexpensive/lightweight/lookgood). Based upon my budget I was thinking I would get a set of velox vx-8s... but now... i don't they'll work out for me with a width of 7.5 and offset of 40... looks like it's back to the drawing board.