Two light bicycle and one WAO.
I totally agree with your inserts+aluminium being the best value. My bike came with a nice hub, and the added cost for a fancy rim didn't seem too crazy (roughly $300) for life time warranty. I'd read all the reviews about how average riders don't really break carbon wheels anymore, and figured that a zero maintenance rim with a life-time warranty would actually make sense, considering that I was going through an aluminum rim or two every season. What I didn't quite take into account is that a lot of the dings that I could basically ignore in aluminum, would completely destroy a carbon rim without an insert.
The reduced maintenance is pretty sweet.
Feb. 10, 2021, 9:21 a.m. - Morgan Heater
Two light bicycle and one WAO. I totally agree with your inserts+aluminium being the best value. My bike came with a nice hub, and the added cost for a fancy rim didn't seem too crazy (roughly $300) for life time warranty. I'd read all the reviews about how average riders don't really break carbon wheels anymore, and figured that a zero maintenance rim with a life-time warranty would actually make sense, considering that I was going through an aluminum rim or two every season. What I didn't quite take into account is that a lot of the dings that I could basically ignore in aluminum, would completely destroy a carbon rim without an insert. The reduced maintenance is pretty sweet.