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NSMB 2023 Full-Suspension Thread

Dec. 18, 2023, 2:45 p.m.
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Posted by: mammal

Posted by: pedalhound

I don't have any photo's yet....but I just laced up some new We Are One rims to my Chris King hubs, replacing the 9 year old Light Bicycle rims....very stoked. My Banshee Prime got new suspension front and rear this year too....I will add a photo when I remember to take one...lol.

How are the LB rims fairing after that 9 year slog? I only ask because I've got one of their older "Enduro" models as a Rear on my DH bike (swapped from my hard tail). It's been in service for a couple years now, and puts up with a lot of abuse, so I'm basically just gather data points. I've heard others talk about LB rims being good work horses.

They were great, moved from bike to bike on my Chris King hubs a few Banshee's and a Chromag Rootdown.....but this last year I started popping spokes quite a bit so I had the rear hub re-laced with new spokes and nipples but the shop said it was harder to get tensioned properly....and I started popping spokes again this winter...so I got myself a present and spent the money on the We Are One's. I am a big dude with a hack riding style...best described as monster trucking...not poppy or smooth....lol....so 9 or 10 years out of them...way more than I was expecting.

Dec. 18, 2023, 2:47 p.m.
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Posted by: Vikb

We've had several sets of LB rims over the years and never had an issue. They work great, air up tubeless easily and the price is nice. If I was buy a new set of carbon rims I'd get another set of LB rims.

Yeah, I spent so much time on the LB site building up wheels and just thinking about ordering rims, but the Value for a BC made product with lifetime warranty of the WR1's was too good to pass up. Nothing wrong with LB rims...just ask Nobl. ;)

Dec. 19, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
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Posted by: pedalhound

[LB rims] They were great...

Thank you (and others) for the feedback!

Dec. 20, 2023, 4:31 p.m.
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Joined: March 16, 2017

Thought to share this. Not mine. Local rider on Disability and CPP's bike. Old Devinci Frantik he over the last few months updated with more modern parts.

Dec. 21, 2023, 11:17 a.m.
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Posted by: Endurimil

Thought to share this. Not mine. Local rider on Disability and CPP's bike. Old Devinci Frantik he over the last few months updated with more modern parts.

I like it!

Dec. 21, 2023, 4:12 p.m.
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I like it too! I rode the exact same frame from 2007 to 2014. Started with the stock Totem coil and switched to a Boxxer Team in 2008 iirc. 

Fun and good looking bike. Torsional stiffness was not the swingarm's strongest point though! ;)

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