Why are you destroying the environment with your discount bargain bin chinese carbon wheels with no warranty, when you could be saving the environment with the revolutionary new FusionFiber™ that come with a lifetime, no questions asked replacement coverage for the original owner? Sure it costs about 3x as much but think of the moral superiority it gets you
The only problem is it's made in Utah which is full of crazy people, which kinda negates the moral superiority, I'd almost rather send money directly to the CCP at that point
Also discuss wheels and stuffI ride on crabon bontrager wheels, Aeolus Elite 35 TLR Disc. They are relative cheap and I liek them. Cannot go to higher sidewalls due to living next to the coast and fierce winds would make 50mm rims or something hard te handle.>>1980775 I almost went for those when the trek shop guy shilled me on them but I found a rumor the hubs might be DT Swiss which skeeved me out so now I have Zipp 303S which I know some people complain about (hub wise) but they've been good to me so far, hubs are definitely a step up from the mavic garbage I was riding on before>>1980778 Why be scared of dt swiss hubs? That are good hubs, the hubs seems fine to me.>>1980837 The EXP issue. Yeah I know, "they fixed it", I'd still give it another 10 years. The whole point of DT swiss is it's boring and it "just werx", so when it turns exciting and unreliable, it's natural to wait a while>>1980769 Shill. I put my wheels together from a random hoop, as long as it has some life left in it, any hub and a number of spokes as long as they are roughly the same length. Use tape on it. Works fine. Stop obsessing about literally everything.>>1980842 Wa latubeless = faggotCurrently enjoying wheel building. Anyone used recent mavic open pro rims(made in romania)? Heard on the internets they aren't what they used to be but I saw ebay has a decent deal. Been running older mavic rims on most of my bikes and enjoy them.
I have a 1st gen mavic 28hole front hub and another campy rear 28 that I want to lace up.>>1980930 I didn't know mavic even sold replacement parts anymore let alone having an actual line of rims they sell to builders. I thought that stuff ended years ago>>1980931 I have never ridden on their "system" wheels like ksyriums/aksiums. Somehow all my rims are older like cxp 22's, ma-40's, ma-3, reflex and for mtb's 717's, 819, and others.
I think it's because my road stuff is pre 2000ish and the mtb stuff came from OEM's. I try to avoid the proprietary wheel systems.
My old hub is a mavic 500 hub from back when they built a groupset. One of my mom's road bikes still has mavic RD and some other old parts.
