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  • 12K, 3K, UD, Glossy – Post up some pics of your carbon rims?
  • Daffy
    Full Member

    I’m about to order some, but need real world examples of each.

    I’m leaning toward UD Matt as I quite like the understated look, but think that glossy would be easier to keen clean and potentially more resistant to damage.

    Rorschach
    Free Member


    Matte UD….with about 8″ of braking track missing 😐 (my own fault,new one ordered)

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    Got 2 pairs for the road bike: UD matte and gloss weave. Like em both. So not much help.

    davosaurusrex
    Full Member

    Gloss looks tacky IMO. I have the matt 3k, I like that you can see the carbon weave but only if you look closely. Will sort out photo hosting one day…

    tang
    Free Member

    Lucky enough to be sponsored by these guys. Not quite Matt or gloss.

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    You need to figure out how they’d look with your frame and bits (colour and finish). My road bike is largely gloss black so the gloss wheels match the frame, if I put carbon rims on my (gloss orange) mtb I’d have matt UD. I’m not normally a fan of gloss or weave finishes (looks tacky and trying too hard to be “ooh carbon”) but they work on my road bike.

    plus-one
    Full Member

    Matt Ud goes with anything 🙂

    Gloss imho looks awful 🙁

    taxi25
    Free Member

    3k matt

    andysredmini
    Free Member

    I have Matt ud which are very understated. Just plan black really. The other finishes look a bit like Halfords stick on carbon vinyl sheets and scream “look I have carbon”.

    goldenwonder
    Free Member

    3k matt for me, but only on the cx bikes. I’m still not convinced of carbon on mtb.
    Gloss UD on the road bike at the moment, but they are Enve so that’s allowed 😉

    eddiebaby
    Free Member

    Matte UD with grey LB logos for me.

    stewartc
    Free Member

    Matt UD

    3k Matt

    Another Matt UD

    neilneilorangepeel
    Free Member

    3K Gloss

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