No nibbles on this one after a week. wow.
Always easiest to find the countervailing opinion on the forum. I have a bunch of Velocity rims, but I'm not overly enamored of them. One wore out on the braking surfaces after just a few years (not a worry for your disk build). To be fair, the bike had sticky Shimano OEM pads and I rode it in the rain a lot, but I have some 30 year old wheels and I've never worn out a rim.
When I went to replace the rim, they had quit making it. I had to sub a different rim, and eventually was bothered enough by the mismatched rims to rebuild the other one. Could just be supply chain issues, but your inability to find unpolished rims for your needs could be more of their arbitrariness.
They also don't grommet their rims. Can't point to a failure and they are pretty thick in cross-section at the drillings, but grommets seem to make it easier to adjust nipples. And I like their look.
Why do I have all these Velocity rims I'm unenthusiastic about? Velocity is one of the last holdouts on offset rims. It's so much easier (and better) to get a rear wheel set up with a few mm of offset to work with. I swear I don't know what magic is keeping all these 11spd low spoke count wheels rolling.
Of course, Velocity isn't the only one to drop product lines. I was going to recommend the plebian CR18 rim, but apparently SunRingle has quit making it.
