My 650b on tesla hubs have been excellent.
At £40 a rim which is 400gm, they are a bargain. Probably sell more if they were to put the price up and someone else sell em....
Mine have been great, somebody on here uses this build (or Superstar Sentinel rims?...not much difference, Tactics are wider I think) when he competes in Italian SuperEnduro rounds too, he is full of praise, cant remember his username though?!
If you cant bring yourself to buy Superstar's own brand use the custom wheel builder on their website instead and put together a set of wheels with DT Swiss hubs....Mavic, Pacenti, DT Swiss, Ryde, Stans ZTR rims etc...and whatever spokes you like, it is very competitively priced and I've never had a problem with the builds...if they aren't to your liking on arrival your LBS can true them up and it'll still be cheaper than most other combos.
DaveyBoy - i wouldn't get the crossmax enduros unless you're really light on wheels. The front is great but the rear is too narrow and not enough spokes, i've snapped several spokes and 3 times i've had a spoke come out of the hub end on a heavy landing. I really wanted yellow wheels, they do look good but i'm very disappointed for the money. Coincidentally i trashed a rear crossmax sx rim on the hardtail trying to pull a massive ding out so i've just stripped that down to use the hub to build into a front enduro rim, not sure what spokes are being used but i'm hoping more spokes and a wider rim will make for a more reliable rear wheel. If i had my money to spend again i'd probably have gone for either some sx's or the new crossmax xl's, the light bicycle rims don't look a bad bet but i'm still not convinced on carbon for rims just yet.
The front enduro rim [i]is[/i] an SX rim is it not?
Been running 650b DT Swiss XM1501's for the last 9 months, though not marketed as Enduro they are fine for All Mountain which is the same thing pre-decimalisation.
Strong, light and with a great pick-up from the ever reliable 240 hubs, they are the only reason I have not gone to carbon as there would be no benefit.
wrecker - MemberThe front enduro rim is an SX rim is it not?
Basically- front is an SX, rear is an ST. Which let's be honest, is pretty idiotic so they offer SX both ends for the pros. But they're still [i]definitely[/i] Enduros not SXs...
They're yellow though and that counts for a lot 😉 My Lightbike-on-DT240 might very well be lighter, wider, stronger, more reliable and easier to get parts for and roughly half the price but they'll never be yellow.
😀 true northwind, I know the error of my ways! How are you getting on with the light bicycle rims out of interest?
looking on DT website, am i right that the XM1501's are full wheel set only, i.e. no RIM only??
stevede - Membertrue northwind, I know the error of my ways! How are you getting on with the light bicycle rims out of interest?
They're pretty boring tbh! Haven't tested them widely enough to really decide but they've done nothing untoward. But I think I need some more crashes and flats and clumsy sharp edge colliding and that to decide. I chickened out of taking them to the alps and used my old dh bike wheels instead.
(I'll be honest, I was worried about kinlochleven enduro, the grim reaper of bike parts, but they were fine)
they maybe yellow (if that's your thing) but they izzz shit!
wouldn't touch them again, st's I had, which is effectively the same rear, and it was made of cheese, numerous spokes broke, dings galore, one ding so bad I had to buy a new rim at 90 odd quid
they went up tubeless great mind, but are absolutely useless around rocks at speed
had some sram rail 50 for 7 months now, and although pretty expensive, no dings (not even little ones!), only 1 loose spoke and true as the day I had them (1 bearing did get fubared due to washing a lot having said that)
for me id be looking at the new rovals or Chinese carbons laced onto hope hubs
I think the yellow crossmax look shocking but more importantly they are shocking strength wise
Mine have been great, somebody on here uses this build (or Superstar Sentinel rims?...not much difference, Tactics are wider I think) when he competes in Italian SuperEnduro rounds too, he is full of praise, cant remember his username though?!
That's me. Yup - solid rims, really good kit. I ran the Sentinel (which is the 21mm ID rim) on Teslas - were absolutely bang on. If I was buying again now (well I will be soon in 650B), I reckon I'd go for the Tactic which is 24mm ID so a bit better, for a nicer tyre profile.
But can absolutely vouch for the rims both in terms of taking some serious abuse out on Italian rock, and in terms of going up tubeless & no burping issues.
Even if you found (I didn't) that the spoke tension was off or wound out a bit, you're talking very little money to get someone to retension them and you have a bang on set of wheels for under £250, with easy conversion to different axles or XD body etc.
And no I don't work for or have any connection to SS.
Aye, I got a superstar wheel that was terribly built, but it's not that big a deal- I couldn't have got the parts for the wheel for the price they charge, so even with a full rebuild it's still good value. Inconvenient but not stressed