david-mills profile

I miss cheese.

(sob)

I'm blessed/cursed with the ability to toil away in the basement on the trainer. It's not fun. Not even type 2 fun. I started riding on Dec. 27, after realizing that I was still packing weight from x-mas 2015. The same day, I started using The Great Satan, also known as the My Fitness Pal app. Those measures, plus a couple of fatbike rides each week, have been effective. I wish I could just ride more and not track what I'm eating, but down that path lies delicious ruin, smothered in aged cheddar with a side of onion rings.

I can't explain vertical compliance better than these guys:
"The short answer is no, you will not be able to tell any difference in vertical compliance between a carbon wheel and an aluminum wheel. In short, changes in vertical compliance between two wheel setups can be contributed to other factors like tire volume, tire casing, tire pressure, frame flex, handlebar flex etc., not the wheel setups. No spoked bicycle wheel, even super-light alloy wheels with thin gauge spokes, have enough vertical compliance for you to feel a difference."
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That has been my experience as well. The LB 33s I built up 3 years ago have handily survived several rebuilds due to busted spokes, nipples [!] and a rear hub implosion. For stiffness and resistance to damage, I'd put them ahead of Mavic 823, less ~200g per rim. The 38s on my DH bike have held up far better than the Sun i29 [flat-spot-prone] wheels they replaced.

Yes, I believe I would be surprised.

Holy crap! Dat void…

Thanks for that. I agree, WTB makes some good stuff - I wish I would have stocked up on the Stout 2.3 tires when they were still making them.

I'm going to be that guy and ask: how can you feel differences in vertical compliance in a rim? It's less than a mm of movement…

Any chance of a comparison between these hoops and product from the opposite ends of the spectrum? I'm thinking Enve [almost $1000 USD per rim] at one end, and ubiquitous Chinese carbon [Nextie, Light-Bicycle, etc. at under $200 USD per rim]. Not a shootout per se, but more like real vs advertised weights, "this one feels flexy", that sort of thing.

Very interesting! Reminds me of my old Titus El Guapo…

Miranda Miller is finally getting the support she deserves. Awesome!