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Qui si parla Campagnolo
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Nate Knutson wrote:
> Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
>
> > Early in it's life, we saw so many MA-3s crack and fail, with little
> > riders, big riders, no riders, that we stopped selling them and sent
> > the dozen or so we had back to mavic. We then used the Velocity Aero as
> > our low end rim and had great results with those. Not 'sexy', but a
> > good rim for not a lot of $-the Velocity Aero.
>
> Hm... does this mean there was a time when they were less than just a
> bit under the cost of the other Velocity rims? Because if the current
> price is your definition of low end then... well, lucky you.
'Low end' rims were less expensive because of 'features' that were not
included, like machined sidewalls and welded seams. BOTH of which I
think are unnecessary in a bicycle rim.
OpenSports don't have a welded seam. Aeros didn't have a machined
sidewall.
> Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
>
> > Early in it's life, we saw so many MA-3s crack and fail, with little
> > riders, big riders, no riders, that we stopped selling them and sent
> > the dozen or so we had back to mavic. We then used the Velocity Aero as
> > our low end rim and had great results with those. Not 'sexy', but a
> > good rim for not a lot of $-the Velocity Aero.
>
> Hm... does this mean there was a time when they were less than just a
> bit under the cost of the other Velocity rims? Because if the current
> price is your definition of low end then... well, lucky you.
'Low end' rims were less expensive because of 'features' that were not
included, like machined sidewalls and welded seams. BOTH of which I
think are unnecessary in a bicycle rim.
OpenSports don't have a welded seam. Aeros didn't have a machined
sidewall.