[Closed] Cheap Chinese Carbon Rims

You will certainly die.

Chinese carbon rims probably won't be the reason though, plenty of reputable brands like Light Bicycle, Nextie, FarSprts, who build decent rims.

Problem is those brands mentioned above are not cheap !

The best thing to do is find some you are interested in and post a link on here for us to give you our opinion.

What is it you want from a carbon rim? Weight, strength, depth?

Personally I'd rather have a decent Dt Swiss rim over a cheap carbon rim.

I ran a set of no name chinese wheels 40mm on my road bike for 3 years(only sold as wanted tubeless) mate has them and still going strong no issues. £340 ish delivered from memory.

Also have 50mm deep sections(track) on my fixie done thousands of miles. Even punctured 10 miles from home(forgot my track nut spanned) rode it all the way home slowly I thought it would be knackered !! Not a blemish 👍🏻 £220 delivered.

Problem is those brands mentioned above are not cheap !

Depends how cheap you want to go. I mean cheaper than Farsport and you're into the realms of carbon rims that cost less than a lot of alloy rims! Comparing say CSC to Stans.

I used 29" Light Bicycle rims with Hope hubs for 4K Miles on my old XC bike.
Fairly abused them and no issues.

Should Add Fastop to the list. My club mate builds wheels with them. Not got a pair myself but they are common in the NE now! Survived all sizes of riders doing road and CX.

i've had many pairs of chinese carbon rims, i've a light bicycle 29er front wheel from 2013, been raced extensively, i'm a fairly safe rider but even still, now been used on my gravel bike, built well they will last a long time! i've had one rim go wrong when some wally of bikeshop redished my wheel to fit a wonky KTM frame and tensioned them so high the bead bed de-laminated, otherwise very good. newest pair are 30mm internal and still weight 1650grams for the pair.

FunkyDunc
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Problem is those brands mentioned above are not cheap !

They were, once, though- my first LB rim cost barely more than a DT alu rim. That was back when they were much more of an unknown- their reliability has pushed the price up. But there'll be others out there that are good, that we just don't know are good yet. And there's the problem...

As I understand it YishunBike manufacture Light Bicycle rims, you can buy directly from Yishun and I have done for several years, only issue is over inflation caused a failure

Having said that I have 5-6 29'er rims with no issues and would have more if the Dollar/Sterling rate was a little more favorable