any one using carbon clinchers????
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any one using carbon clinchers????
Live 2 Ride
Nope .. no carbon here, especially not with the broken smooth dial found on most of my bikes.
If you're thinking weight, take a look at the Stan's wheelset. 1210g and tubeless. Probably cheaper than carbon too:
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Agree. Stans wheelset for weight. Or custom build with Stans rims, Sapim CX-Ray, etc.
Custom all the way.
"The song of a bird…We used to ask Ennesson to do bird calls. He could do them. How he could do them, and when he perished, along with him went all those birds…"-Return from the Stars, Stanislaw Lem
"We just walk around, and sometimes we go out and dance, and then we listen to the environment."-Ralf Hutter, Kraftwerk
Man just thinking about using carbon rims on the shore, sends whilly's down my spine.
Haha ripping down Neds at speed… Ka Blueieee
"X is for x-ray. If you've been bikin' and you haven't had an x-ray, you ain't goin' hard enough." - Bob Roll
I wonder why they would go through so much trouble to make something that presumably is no good………hmmmmm I would think they would be allot tougher than a alu rim of equal weight.
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We should be getting some Syncros ones to try shortly. They looked great at Interbike but obviously we need more info.
Man just thinking about using carbon rims on the shore, sends whilly's down my spine.
Haha ripping down Neds at speed… Ka Blueieee
Idea of Ninja on carbon clinchers…no no no NO! :hurt:
"The song of a bird…We used to ask Ennesson to do bird calls. He could do them. How he could do them, and when he perished, along with him went all those birds…"-Return from the Stars, Stanislaw Lem
"We just walk around, and sometimes we go out and dance, and then we listen to the environment."-Ralf Hutter, Kraftwerk
Idea of Ninja on carbon clinchers…no no no NO! :hurt:
You got that right! My size and lack of anything resembling grace would equal disaster.
My main concern with carbon hoops on a mountain bike would be impacts from rocks, not so much straight on stuff, but the glancing blow/ weird angle crap that happens. Metal bends, carbon just plain fails. Which gives me the whillys. :|
"X is for x-ray. If you've been bikin' and you haven't had an x-ray, you ain't goin' hard enough." - Bob Roll
You got that right! My size and lack of anything resembling grace would equal disaster.
My main concern with carbon hoops on a mountain bike would be impacts from rocks, not so much straight on stuff, but the glancing blow/ weird angle crap that happens. Metal bends, carbon just plain fails. Which gives me the whillys. :|
I thought carbon these days was not susceptible to the "nick-then-fail" problem? I was also under the impression that it was stronger weight for weight than alu.
Wasn't there a chainguide put out a couple years back (was it livid?) made out of carbon? Everyone said it took more abuse than any other chainguide they had ever ridden with and it was way lighter.
The problem is not nicks but catastrophic failure with no warning versus fatigue failure. Plus I would think sharp carbon shards everywhere would be no fun, especially if have to pick them out of your skin.
I'll let Ninja explain. Sometimes a pic is worth a thousand…
"The song of a bird…We used to ask Ennesson to do bird calls. He could do them. How he could do them, and when he perished, along with him went all those birds…"-Return from the Stars, Stanislaw Lem
"We just walk around, and sometimes we go out and dance, and then we listen to the environment."-Ralf Hutter, Kraftwerk
It depends on how they make the carbon. Carbon ski poles last just fine and they are constanly knicked cut and gouged by razor sharp steel edges. maybe a fat bastard falls on them now and agin too.But are the available carbon off road rims that tough? Or if they are that tough, how much do they weigh? Stan's has a rim now under 300 gms. That will not hold up to a season of hard shore riding, but as a race rim, killer.
Debate? Bikes are made for riding not pushing.
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