Hey all,
Just hit buy on some superstar v6 on stans flow mk3 wheels.
Unbeatable price with the current code.. sapim spokes etc.
Anyone got any experienced with these hubs?
Am I going to regret this purchase? Buy cheap buy twice?
Amazingly,I don't think anyone put a PSA up for the 40% off all SS wheels??
Unless I can't see it!
Good. Means I might get mine soon 😂
Hi chilled76, what do you make of the wheels then? I'm sorely tempted to buy v6's with flow/arch rims. They look good quality and with a discount, almost half the price the price of equivalent wheels on hope pro 4's.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
I think chilled had some issues with the wheels unless it's another member I'm confusing hun with?..... As unfortunately SS supplied the wrong spec wheelset twice?...
Hello we had one case of someone getting the wrong spokes in a wheel. They actually got the correct ones twice but had noticed a typo at the time of order and wanted the incorrect spokes. It all got very confusing but we sorted it for him at our expense honouring the typo.
Other than that a storm in a teacup which I’m sure will be misquoted for ever more.
The very competitive price is purely as we manufacture in huge numbers in-house now in Lincoln and only sell direct. So no shop markup to double the price.
If you have any questions about our products just let me know
Neil superstar
I think chilled had some issues with the wheels
Yeah, I think because they didn't arrive in 5 mins he threw his toys out of the pram 🙂
I got a misbuilt wheel a while back- actually built and tensioned with damaged spokes, it hadn't been damaged in the post as it was still perfectly tensioned and true. Weird one tbh, definitely shouldn't have got out of the workshop and the actual quality of the build and true was otherwise excellent so it wasn't some noob error. But it was all sorted out quickly enough (I wanted them to just send me some spokes so I could fix it fast, they insisted on getting the wheel back, fair enough really) Good wheels though otherwise. I've grumbled about SS often enough in the past but I'd happily buy them again.
And seriously, at these prices even if they arrived unassembled it'd still be a decent deal. Shame there's no 20mm front option yet but it's on its way it says.
Interesting that they're using Lasers... I use Lasers myself quite often, I think they're excellent wee spokes but Sapim don't recommend them for use in disc wheels. Unless they've changed the guidance? Their website is borked so can't check. As a punter and amateur wheelbuilder I just ignore that... But they're pretty light spokes, for a strong build.
Northwind - V620 is going to anodiser tomorrow. It was at the back of the queue as less than 5% of wheels go out 20mm now and it needs a different bearing/hub size to do.
The problem with lasers is when you hand build them it’s impossible not to get spoke twist and therefore fatigue while building. Our super nice Machine holds the spokes so we don’t have that issue. So when we build laser are fine for anything but on handbuilds use CX ray as you can use a key on the blade.
Neil Superstar
They actually got the correct ones twice but had noticed a typo at the time of order and wanted the incorrect spokes. It all got very confusing but we sorted it for him at our expense honouring the typo.
Im glad it was sorted for Chilled to his satisfaction. I thought there was also an issue with the wrong freehub being supplied?
Anyway, glad it all ended well and the prices are indeed excellent by any measure.👍
Off-but-on topic, @superstarcomponents, while you're on this thread, do you have an endcap that will fit a front boost V6 hub to allow using a QR boost fork? Cheers
Back on topic, I'm very happy with the V6 hubs I had built onto MK3 Flows, though I've only had them a month or so. Seem well made and tension/true was good.
What about d-lights with the spoke flats to stop twist up.
Jakd95
Not currently but we are looking at making an adapter axle. I think we have had 2 people ask so far in 6 months so it’s a bit of a weird one.
D lites we can’t use as they can’t have the TCs flats on. The only reason they exist is to make a cheaper butted spokes. 1.65 gets rolled upto spoke thread so it only needs one butting and can be cut to any length in the factory. I’d rather use lasers on out machine or if hand built race as they are thick enough for twist to be a minimal issue.
Neil superstar