Right, I’ve just spotted some cracks around the spoke holes on my Freq i23 rim. No complaints, it’s not been nicely treated and I’ve had it a while.
Anyway, I need to replace it. When the rear one went last year I bought a mk3 arch and about a week later everyone who’d bought them found they caught fire, or something. So Stans are out. I’m not sure I fancy messing around with DT Swiss’ finest star fangled nipples and washers and I’m generally happy with WTB, so I’m going to stick with them.
Question is, which one? I’d quite like to gain a little width but even the i25s add 50g. I’ll put up with it if I have to but if I can keep the weight off I will. Asyms are even heavier.
Anyone have experience with one of the wider KOMs on the front a longer travel 29er- my thoughts are that the i29 should be pretty stiff so it’s really impact resistance I’m worried about. I’ve got the i25s on the solaris and they’ve been fine but that doesn’t get dropped into rocks with quite such abandon.