after 3 years fatigued aluminium becomes floppy?
not sure about the facts behind that one...
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Both fookin rims now bent
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Posted 2 years ago #
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I'd not bothered to read TINAS's spoutings, but I will also dispute all of what you've said!
Rims don't last a season? What? Perhaps you are simply an oaf?
you probably should,
When did i say they dont last a season?
I said 3 years! That 3 'seasons' plus three springs battering under the chrristmass excess, plus three autumns, and three winters.
All I've said that appears so contriversial is..........
Occasionlay wheel's need some attention, usualy after the first month or so, and are then ok for years.
This was then disputed by someone saying good wheels never need touching.
The same person then claimed I'm someing of oaf riding arround on rocks with lightweight rims and never maintaing them. Despite his earlier statement that they never need touching.
Then I had the audacity to claim that maybe after 8000miles in the peak district my lightweight XC wheels were probably at the end of their usable life, which is why I replaced them with en321's.
You tension your spokes by ukelele(sp?), I'd rather just ride my bike.
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steel spokes + several million cycles = increasing brittleness, decreacing modulous
decreaced modulous = floppy feeling as for the same tension applied when trueing them the spokes have less extension, so as the wheel deforms spokes are actualy becoming unloaded sooner.
increasing brittlness = snap sooner
I'm not a materials scientist but I beleive that broadly fits.
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XC rims last barely a season IME if used regulalry on rocky terrain
Unless you're using ZTR Races for DH or sommat it points to oafish riding/bad building.
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You tension your spokes by ukelele(sp?), I'd rather just ride my bike.
Ukulele. Saves you loads of time truing them compared to bringing it all up from nothing. Makes a wheel that tends to be evenly tensioned and not to need any extra truing a month later. So more time 'just riding your bike'.
Joe
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Still lots of tension in this thread... (in case you missed it first time)
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Removing the tyre does of course make it easier to locate high and low spots in the truing jig, we're not just truing in one plane are we?
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didnt miss it, just ignored it :-p
That comment was aimed at those alex lightweight rims I used, they lasted a year and a half in south derbyshire without incident, took a batterin on a weekend away at dalby, but couldnt cope with the peaks, so realy they were 2.5 years old, but only laster 1 year in the peaks.
Appologies, a case of using statistics to prove anything. I though 99% of people knew that.
I suspect that the en321's will/would last indefinately in berkshire.
As for tension, we'll agree to dissagree, you use your musical instruments, I'll just do it by squeezing pairs of spokes and pinging them with car keys
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depends on the jig your using ant
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Yeah, I suppose there are ways around it, but that fine chink of light you can work to with the tyre off can't be beat ime.
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TINAS my "talking shite" o meter gas just exploded.
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I'm currently less than impressed with my Roval Traversee wheelset that I splashed around 400 notes on.
Not only did they stay true for approximately half a nanosecond, I now have two large dings in my rear rim with a very loose spoke at each dent. Ther first one I put down to bad luck, but now I'm convinced that they are made of cheese.
Before anyone comments on my riding style, I've never dinged a rim to this degree in 15 years on any bike I've ever ridden off road. I very much doubt that they will be repairable judging by the slackness of the spokes. 6 months minimal use for a £400 wheelset is unacceptable. I very much doubt Specialized fantastic warranty service will do me any favours in this instance.
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Let's put it down to oafness again then! You also wanna buy yourself a harmonica!
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Eh?
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