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I put this up on Alt.Mountain-Bike and got a couple of hits in favor of Mavic 618's....
Any other suggestions? I'm locked into 32 spokes (Rohloff hubs...) and don't want to go too far
overboard on weight.
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I've got two rear wheels built on Mavic 517's.
The older one (about 3 years...) is showing small cracks around most of the nipple holes and my
guess is that it's toast - or at least a walk-home-type failure looking for a place to happen.
On the newer one (< 6 months old), when I run my finger around the rim so that it just brushes each
nipple hole, I can feel very slight lumps around some of the holes.
Bottom line, it seems to me like me and the Mavic 517's are not a good match.
I'm about 210#, but I don't ride that aggressively and mostly ride FS. OTOH, I use disc brakes;
I've cracked one frame already; and my little Fox air shock's nitrogen part went south before it's
time and the rebuild didn't last a year before it started making funny sounds and I replaced it
with a coilover.
SO: What's my next logical move rim-wise? My FS already weighs too much (34 lbs...) so I don't want
to go nuts on rim weight....but the durability of what I have doesn't seem sufficient. MBA mag's
note to the effect that tubless rims will work with tubed tires - so why not go with tubless rims
just for the extra options available sounds tempting....
Or am I jumping to cause with the weight issue? Could it be something like too much spoke tension?
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PeteCresswell
Any other suggestions? I'm locked into 32 spokes (Rohloff hubs...) and don't want to go too far
overboard on weight.
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I've got two rear wheels built on Mavic 517's.
The older one (about 3 years...) is showing small cracks around most of the nipple holes and my
guess is that it's toast - or at least a walk-home-type failure looking for a place to happen.
On the newer one (< 6 months old), when I run my finger around the rim so that it just brushes each
nipple hole, I can feel very slight lumps around some of the holes.
Bottom line, it seems to me like me and the Mavic 517's are not a good match.
I'm about 210#, but I don't ride that aggressively and mostly ride FS. OTOH, I use disc brakes;
I've cracked one frame already; and my little Fox air shock's nitrogen part went south before it's
time and the rebuild didn't last a year before it started making funny sounds and I replaced it
with a coilover.
SO: What's my next logical move rim-wise? My FS already weighs too much (34 lbs...) so I don't want
to go nuts on rim weight....but the durability of what I have doesn't seem sufficient. MBA mag's
note to the effect that tubless rims will work with tubed tires - so why not go with tubless rims
just for the extra options available sounds tempting....
Or am I jumping to cause with the weight issue? Could it be something like too much spoke tension?
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PeteCresswell