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12-20-22, 01:25 PM
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12-20-22, 01:30 PM
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Do people really worry about wheels spontaneously "failing"?
I've been riding bikes for a long time - as a kid I did a lot of stuff on department store bikes that had really cheap wheelsets that clearly weren't designed for the abuse my buddies and I would dish out.
I taco'ed rims, broke spokes, etc. Wheels can totally be broken - I get that - but the idea that someone would be "just riding along" and a wheel (even a very cheap one) would suddenly fall apart without warning in a way that causes the rider to crash? That seems really hard to believe.
I've been riding bikes for a long time - as a kid I did a lot of stuff on department store bikes that had really cheap wheelsets that clearly weren't designed for the abuse my buddies and I would dish out.
I taco'ed rims, broke spokes, etc. Wheels can totally be broken - I get that - but the idea that someone would be "just riding along" and a wheel (even a very cheap one) would suddenly fall apart without warning in a way that causes the rider to crash? That seems really hard to believe.
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12-20-22, 01:54 PM
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They do!
Wait! Those weren't no-name cheap <deleted> wheels, They were the wheels that everyone is envious of...
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/review...-wheelset.html
I completed two runs of the classic Ingenere trail in Finale Ligure, which is about 6km in total, marked as a blue run on Trailforks, but still has a few brutal rock sections that can eat a wheel or shred a tire quickly – these rides that totalled about 30km with the climbing, and a couple of other short trail sections may have damaged the rim and I had not noticed. The third ride was under a secondary test pilot and local pinner, Federico Greppi, who hit a small fly off for a photo shoot, he was greeted upon landing with a complete front wheel failure: the rim snapped, the front tire lost all its air and he crashed before he could stop – thankfully he was OK.
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12-20-22, 02:58 PM
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12-20-22, 03:57 PM
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Something smelled fishy. That's all.
A savvy shop owner would've broke them down & sold the hoops & DT 240's at cost as customer returns rather than the whole thing as a loss. Or given it to an employee & taken the tax benefit as a charitable contribution or counted it as inventory shrinkage at full value or some other means.
A savvy shop owner would've broke them down & sold the hoops & DT 240's at cost as customer returns rather than the whole thing as a loss. Or given it to an employee & taken the tax benefit as a charitable contribution or counted it as inventory shrinkage at full value or some other means.
Contrary to what you may believe, bike shops take losses on items they sell all the time. Bikes depreciate faster than cars. If they have bikes they didn't sell in a previous model year, they have to drop prices and sometimes these prices are less than what they bought the bikes for. They make it up elsewhere. Not every sale will be profitable. It's called doing business.
And where did you get this DT 240's? The hubs are Pub hubs. Did you even click the links and read the descriptions?
And I won't even comment on the tax write-off for a charitable contribution remark.
12-20-22, 04:07 PM
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More Pub inventory being dumped by The-House... https://www.the-house.com/search?term=pub
12-20-22, 04:14 PM
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Post #23 had a review of one of the wheelsets with DTS 240 hubs. Apparently, there were variations produced by Pub at some point.
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12-20-22, 04:41 PM
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12-20-22, 04:46 PM
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This thread reminds me of when I showed up at the trailhead with a 1300g Chinese wheelset I'd gotten for $700. The snob-patrol with their $2K+ Enves was positively drooling waiting for them to fail. Four years of hard use later they're still waiting.
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12-20-22, 04:58 PM
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They do!
Wait! Those weren't no-name cheap <deleted> wheels, They were the wheels that everyone is envious of...
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/review...-wheelset.html
Wait! Those weren't no-name cheap <deleted> wheels, They were the wheels that everyone is envious of...
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/review...-wheelset.html
"a few brutal rock sections that can eat a wheel or shred a tire quickly – these rides that totalled about 30km with the climbing, and a couple of other short trail sections may have damaged the rim and I had not noticed."
"and during that ride the bike was plowed into plenty of rocks which don't make the nicest sound when they connected with the high-volume carbon rim. One of those rock strikes could have caused a crack..."
"I have lots of opinion on carbon fiber parts, and I understand many people have absolutely no problems using Enve wheelsets and other carbon products. I rarely choose to use carbon wheels..."
This seems like a far cry from the "just riding along and spontaneously failed" scenario that users here often imagine.
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12-20-22, 05:10 PM
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This review is almost 4 years old, and the reviewer (a former elite DH MTB racer) admits that his belief is that carbon fiber wheels are inferior. He then proceeds to smash a new set of Enve wheels down a rocky DH trail on an e-bike to prove that point.
"a few brutal rock sections that can eat a wheel or shred a tire quickly – these rides that totalled about 30km with the climbing, and a couple of other short trail sections may have damaged the rim and I had not noticed."
"and during that ride the bike was plowed into plenty of rocks which don't make the nicest sound when they connected with the high-volume carbon rim. One of those rock strikes could have caused a crack..."
"I have lots of opinion on carbon fiber parts, and I understand many people have absolutely no problems using Enve wheelsets and other carbon products. I rarely choose to use carbon wheels..."
This seems like a far cry from the "just riding along and spontaneously failed" scenario that users here often imagine.
"a few brutal rock sections that can eat a wheel or shred a tire quickly – these rides that totalled about 30km with the climbing, and a couple of other short trail sections may have damaged the rim and I had not noticed."
"and during that ride the bike was plowed into plenty of rocks which don't make the nicest sound when they connected with the high-volume carbon rim. One of those rock strikes could have caused a crack..."
"I have lots of opinion on carbon fiber parts, and I understand many people have absolutely no problems using Enve wheelsets and other carbon products. I rarely choose to use carbon wheels..."
This seems like a far cry from the "just riding along and spontaneously failed" scenario that users here often imagine.
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CF wheels will assplode if they get a tiny nick or scratch. Like this...
https://youtu.be/VfjjiHGuHoc
https://youtu.be/VfjjiHGuHoc
Bike Forums - View Single Post - Mavic Cosmic SLR 40 Wheels (Rim Brake)
And these are supposed to be Mavic's top-of-the-line rim braked CF wheels.
12-20-22, 05:53 PM
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The post-acquisition Mavic Cosmic SLR 40 wheels I ordered earlier this year failed without any nicks, scratches, or riding.
Bike Forums - View Single Post - Mavic Cosmic SLR 40 Wheels (Rim Brake)
And these are supposed to be Mavic's top-of-the-line rim braked CF wheels.
Bike Forums - View Single Post - Mavic Cosmic SLR 40 Wheels (Rim Brake)
And these are supposed to be Mavic's top-of-the-line rim braked CF wheels.
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12-20-22, 06:42 PM
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That would depend on the tire size. 23mm is about right for 2.1 to 2.5 inch tires. It wasn't terribly long ago that mountain bikes with 2.1 inch tires were fitted with 17 or 19mm tires.
I agree that rims used to be ridiculously narrow. It just seems like we're going from one extreme to the other. You don't want a tire shaped like a light bulb, but you don't want a tire shaped like a bell either as there is more sidewall exposure to sharp objects on the ground.
I agree that rims used to be ridiculously narrow. It just seems like we're going from one extreme to the other. You don't want a tire shaped like a light bulb, but you don't want a tire shaped like a bell either as there is more sidewall exposure to sharp objects on the ground.
12-20-22, 11:42 PM
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One can get down into the weeds pretty quickly with rim width vs tire width, but for MTB tires I think that most folks these days don't like to run 2.5s on anything less than about 30mm IW. My set of XC wheels are 27mm IW and I don't run anything larger than 2.35" on them.
12-21-22, 10:24 AM
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Also on that website...
Shimano 105 R7000 shifters for $197.95 https://www.the-house.com/qsh105str7...B&gclsrc=aw.ds
Shimano 105 R7000 shifters for $197.95 https://www.the-house.com/qsh105str7...B&gclsrc=aw.ds
Whisky No7 Carbon seatpost 20mm offset for %57.95 https://www.the-house.com/qwhno7c272...B&gclsrc=aw.ds
Whisky No7 Carbon seatpost 0mm offset for $58.95 https://www.the-house.com/qwhno70os3...B&gclsrc=aw.ds
FSA SL-K Carbon seatpost 20mm offset for $51.95 https://www.the-house.com/fsscs030zz...B&gclsrc=aw.ds
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I have the Whisky no7 Carbon seatpost on my gravel bike and like it. Spent $100, so for nearly half that, itd be a great deal.
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Wheels delivered. They came in a Wheelmaster box from JBI. JBI is a cycling distributor and I am 95% sure the prebuilt wheels that Velomine has sold for years are all from JBI. Wheelmaster and Origin8 are a couple of JBI owned brands.
Anyways, the wheels are true, and spoke tension feels fine(just tugging). Since its basically arctic degrees outside right now, I look forward to spinning them once the grease is no longer frozen.
The spoke holes arent the drilled the cleanest. Nothing that I really care about though.
Hopefully I dont die on my backup to the backup road bike when its ridden this coming year.
Anyways, the wheels are true, and spoke tension feels fine(just tugging). Since its basically arctic degrees outside right now, I look forward to spinning them once the grease is no longer frozen.
The spoke holes arent the drilled the cleanest. Nothing that I really care about though.
Hopefully I dont die on my backup to the backup road bike when its ridden this coming year.