I hadn't considered California environmental code, my wrenching colleague and I were talking about aluminum nipples today and I think he touched on it best in that aluminum nipples tend to last the life expectancy of a mountain bike rim. I switched to brass when I started running inserts and aluminum rims suddenly became virtually immortal - nothing worse than re-lacing a wheel because the nipples are perma-seized.
I was building some offset ARC 40 Race Face rims today and had the same thought re. manufacturing.
Feb. 16, 2023, 8:08 p.m. - Andrew Major
I hadn't considered California environmental code, my wrenching colleague and I were talking about aluminum nipples today and I think he touched on it best in that aluminum nipples tend to last the life expectancy of a mountain bike rim. I switched to brass when I started running inserts and aluminum rims suddenly became virtually immortal - nothing worse than re-lacing a wheel because the nipples are perma-seized. I was building some offset ARC 40 Race Face rims today and had the same thought re. manufacturing.