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Submitted by
John
a Cross Country Rider
from Canada
Date Reviewed: November 27, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Who's Kidding who here. These wheels are bullet proof. I am 230 lbs and ride hard. If you have broken these rims or hubs, you are either lying are don't know hor to ride. I ride two-three times per week and have not had a single problem. I ride tough rocky trails full of roots and some fairly big drops. | | Weaknesses: | If anything overbuilt, thus a bit heavy for the lighter rider, but for a heavy rider, these are perfect. | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Epic Pro, full XTR, SID Race. Avid ti V-brakes | | Bottom Line: | Great wheel set for the price. Tough as nails and a great set that will take anything you throw at them | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Charles
a Weekend Warrior
from St. Louis, MO
Date Reviewed: October 16, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Came with bike. | | Strengths: | Looks good, decent package wheel for a $600 bike. | | Weaknesses: | None. | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6500 SLR (2003) | | Bottom Line: | For daily commuting and occasional weekend singletrack these wheels are fine. Would buy something stronger if I planned on doing the tough stuff every week, rather than trashing them and then moaning about why my low to mid level wheels couldn't take weekly abuse on the West Tyson end of the Chubb. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Russ
a Cross Country Rider
from Corvallis, OR USA
Date Reviewed: March 9, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | OEM | | Strengths: | Sturdy and reliable | | Weaknesses: | Probably a bit heavy, like everything else that came on this bike | | Bike Setup: | Trek Y3 8 speed, Jett fork | | Bottom Line: | After 5 years I have no complaints with these wheels. I ride in a fair amount of mud and I went years without cleaning the hubs, they never complained. I've hardly had to do any truing on them either. I weigh 160 and do agressive cross country, no big drops. A good, solid, reliable ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dave
a Weekend Warrior
from Springfield
Date Reviewed: October 1, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | Busiek | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | Used | | Strengths: | Smooth hub bearings, high rim sidewall | | Weaknesses: | Heavier | | Similar Products Used: | lx/517 wheelset | | Bike Setup: | KHS Steel softail | | Bottom Line: | Borrowed these from a friend to try the bontrager tubeless rimstrips that are available for $5 each from your bontrager dealer. Front rim worked great with homemade sealant. Rear rim (asym) wouldn't work with the tubeless rim strip, so I stretched a 20" BMX presta tube over the rim (cut down the middle so it sticks out both sides after you mount the tire) and it sealed even better than the front with the Bontrager strip. It's a great tubeless wheelset on the cheap!
Couldn't find a review spot for the bontrager tubeless rim strips, so more comments here: Wonderful product designed for wider cross-country rims. I couldn't get it to work with 517's due to the narrow rim (21.8 outer measurement). I think the bontrager strip will work with any symmetrical rim wider than about 22.5. The bontrager rims (mustang tubeless) they're actually designed for are around 23.5 or so. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Owen Simpson
a Cross Country Rider
from Franklin, NC
Date Reviewed: February 19, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | All | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Smoky Mountain Bicycles | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Rear wheel comes out of true after every ride. Broke at least one spoke on every race. | | Similar Products Used: | Ritchey pros | | Bike Setup: | Fisher Hoo-koo-e-koo, basically stock | | Bottom Line: | These wheels were terrible. I don,t know if I just got a bad set or what. I broke a spoke at least eight times, and the wheel came out of true every time I rode. I got a new wheelset as soon as I could. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Allen Coulonge, Jr.
a Weekend Warrior
from New Orleans, LA
Date Reviewed: May 15, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Any | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | GNO Cyclery in New Orleans | | Strengths: | Strong wheelset, stayed true. | | Weaknesses: | On the heavy side. | | Similar Products Used: | Usual basic junk wheelsets and Cane Creek WAM Crono Ti | | Bike Setup: | Trek 4900 w/ XT/XTR group, Cane Creek wheels(now), Duke XC, Syntace bar & stem, & Eggbeaters | | Bottom Line: | The bottom line is that this is a good, sturdy although heavy wheelset. If you are looking for a decent backup wheelset or need a better one than came stock with your beginning bike and are strapped for cash, buy them. They were a solid wheelset until I could afford something better. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
STEVEN KAMILTON
a Weekend Warrior
from Aliso Veijo, CA
Date Reviewed: March 6, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Aliso/Wood Canyon | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Nice and solid. | | Weaknesses: | Heavy | | Bike Setup: | Trek 4900- Hayes disc brakes, Deore/ LX drivetrain, RS Duke XC | | Bottom Line: | Have not had one problem with them. (They seem a little heavy compare to other ones I've checked out.) | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott
a
from Denver
Date Reviewed: February 11, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Buffalo Creek | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came stock on Klein | | Strengths: | stays true--cheap-cheap-cheap-- | | Weaknesses: | heavy | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | blur | | Bottom Line: | These rims are a bit heavy, but never had any probs. The reviewer before me must have different rims than I do. I have beaten the crap out of these and had them trued twice in three years of hard riding. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Crazyk
a Weekend Warrior
from Bowling Green, OH
Date Reviewed: September 3, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | any single track I can find | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came with Trek 4900 | | Strengths: | If you ride flat stuff with no roots or rocks they're the bomb. | | Weaknesses: | Can't handle roots, rocks or anything mildly extreme | | Similar Products Used: | None yet, but hopefully a new wheelset really soon | | Bottom Line: | Don't buy these if you consider yourself a Mt. biker. Unfourtantly they come on the trek 4900, which is a great bike. Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade! I give them two chilis because they did make through some rough times. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Forrest
a Cross Country Rider
from E. Lansing Mi
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Ft Custer | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Velociped | | Strengths: | STAYED TRUE!! In one year of hard riding I only had to have the wheel trued once... spokes stay tight. VERY RIGID | | Weaknesses: | Fairly heavy, but not bad. VERY prone to pinch flats. For a while it seemed I was getting them once a week or so. | | Similar Products Used: | Rolf Dolomite | | Bike Setup: | Used to be: Trek 4900 w/RS Duke Race, XTR rear -Had the Corvair tires on here (stock).
Now: Trek STP200 w/RS Duke Race, XTR rear. Everything else is stock and I'm loving it. | | Bottom Line: | Great Wheels to come Stock on a $500 bike. While I had the wheel set I was VERY impressed by the durability of the wheel. The only two downsides where (1)Weight (2)Pinch flats. Other than that they performed like an absolute DREAM. These would be a very nice extra wheel set for a cheap price! Just remeber to bring the patch kit and a hand pump. :) | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
aleks
a Cross Country Rider
from brooklyn NY
Date Reviewed: December 25, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | came on the bike | | Strengths: | I dont know about all of the other reviewers, but mine came on my trek6500. I never had any problems with front wheel, hub was great, the rim strong enuff for me. But the rear was a nitemare. Hub was making funny noise. went to the shop three times, still no luck. The rim by that time was ok. Then hub started to sound like a pepper grinder. Replaced the whose hub with an XT one. Then the rim couldnt stay true after one ride. i will pay someone to ride the wheels now.
Just got Rolf Uraccos as a replacement. We'll see how they will be. | | Bottom Line: | hmm...look up oh duh...merry xmas | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ward smith
a
from vernon
Date Reviewed: August 31, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | kal lake | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | olympia cycle | | Strengths: | Got a flat on a 60 km trail with all sorts of terrain on it. Had no spare or flat kit so I hadto stuff the tire with foliage, and road 4okm on this. The wheel didn't even go out of true!!! | | Weaknesses: | prone to pinch flats | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | rocky mountain 24 spd. | | Bottom Line: | tuff rim!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex
a
from Albert lea
Date Reviewed: August 6, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | somewhat light | | Weaknesses: | spokes losen up 24/7 "i cant keep them strait and they wont stay tight"
| | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | 99 vrx 200 | | Bottom Line: | these whells suck | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Fly S
a Cross Country Rider
from Severna Park MD
Date Reviewed: July 14, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Mount snow VT | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | bike doctor of Arnold, with bike | | Strengths: | I have a twin brother who rolls Mavic x138 wheels and we ride together all the time. We really like fast, rocky, technical stuff. His wheels have needed truing and he's had problems with the brakepads rubbing because the wheel was not true. I have ridden the EXACT same terrain right at his side and my wheels are perfectly true | | Weaknesses: | I dont know whether it is the wheel or not but something about my bike makes the rear tube pop pretty often. I am pretty quick when it comes to changing/patching tubes, because I've gotten my fair share of practice. | | Similar Products Used: | None. This was, like many of the reviewers, my first "real bike" | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6000 with Grimeca System 8 hydraulic disk brake(front) and soon to have a Manitou X-VERT super. | | Bottom Line: | I have never had a problem with these wheels, unless the tire popping can be attributed to the wheel design. I dont know that it can though. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ken
a Cross Country Rider
from Yakima, Wa
Date Reviewed: June 20, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | Came on Fuel 80 | | Strengths: | Nothing great | | Weaknesses: | Hubs suck, Rims only use presta valves, Cr@p sopkes, No eyelets | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic 222, 221, 517 Valiants | | Bike Setup: | Fuel 80 TIGHT RIDE | | Bottom Line: | These suck don't buy them if they come on your bike replace them when they need to be trued your money would be better spent on a GOOD set | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
phishin
a Cross Country Rider
from tulsa, OK
Date Reviewed: May 3, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Turkey Mtn Area | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Price, Stays True, Durable | | Weaknesses: | Hubs wear out FAST with hard riding. Flex like a son of a batch. | | Similar Products Used: | Sun Ringle RPM & Various Mavic rims on XT hubs | | Bottom Line: | These are my spare wheels. When I corner hard I can actually hear the front wheel flex so much that it makes contact with my brake pad. I wore out the rear one in less than a year. I have no complaints at all about the rims, people rag on them but they dont ave any Idea what they are saying. I ride the chit out of them and have bottomed out my shock and blown out tires from smashing into rocks and boulders but the rims stay true. I think if they were built a little better in the hub and spoke department they would really be a fabulous wheelset.
Ill give em 4 and 2 | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kevin Rooney
a Cross Country Rider
from Arvada, CO
Date Reviewed: April 14, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Walker Ranch, Boulder | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Survived a couple 24 hr races, 1 enduro and 2-1/2 summers of rocky rides on the Colorado front range. These rims are tough when set-up properly. No problems with breaking surface when paired with XT brakes and Aztec pads. | | Weaknesses: | Some corrosion inside after 2 yrs around nipples. Alumimum nipples strip easy. Hubs severly worn after 2 yrs. Also front hub requires 18mm wrenches. | | Similar Products Used: | Generic Sun rims on old Cannondale. | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Big Sur with Bonty hubs. | | Bottom Line: | Riding the front range and the rockies, I have hit some big rocks with these rims and they have held strong and true. After two+ years (~1000+mi) I am looking to replace my whole wheelset due to wear and corrosion. If they come with your bike these are great rims for the price, but, don't miss maintenance on the bonty hubs, I am not sure what they are made of, but, they wear fast. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joseph Coniggs
a
from New York
Date Reviewed: April 13, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$160.00 | | Purchased At: | Everybodys Favorite Bike Shop | | Strengths: | The Wheels are light and have a good barking surface. | | Weaknesses: | They get untrued very easily so if you do any type of aggressive riding, do not get these. | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6000 Standard Setup | | Bottom Line: | These wheels could have potential if thier built by hand very carfully. They are cheap and with most things, you get what you pay for. They are good for a person who does mostly commuting but do not handle well on aggressive trails. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
bravho
a Cross Country Rider
from Belgium
Date Reviewed: April 13, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Ardennen | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | - Nice looking.
- Good standard wheel. | | Weaknesses: | You can only use presta tubes on the wheel, so think about it if you take an extra tube on the trail. | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6500 | | Bottom Line: | A pitty you can only use presta tubes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeff
a Cross Country Rider
from Walton FL USA
Date Reviewed: March 10, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | came with bike | | Weaknesses: | I weighed the front wheel at 800grams
Fron wheel came out of true on first ride even with a front suspension fork.
| | Bike Setup: | Trek fuel 80 | | Bottom Line: | Would not have purchased these rims but they came on the bike I wanted. I have since switched the wheels over from my old hardtail and my bike is now lighter and stronger. I do not recamend these wheels to anyone who does serious mountain biking. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gaoo
a
from Quebec
Date Reviewed: January 16, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Bromont | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | radial laced front, asym rear, Bontrager Comp (I/II) hubs, DT spoke, stay trued for a long time | | Weaknesses: | no eyelets, paint comes off | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic 321 disc, Zac-19 | | Bike Setup: | '99 Trek 6500 ZX, Psylo SL, XT rear, LX, STX-rc..... Bontrager (crow-bar, stem, seatpost, seat,rims,hubs...), Panaracer XC fire tire 2.1
| | Bottom Line: | These are good stock wheelset, nice radial laced front rims (28 holes), and asym rear (32 holes). The wheelset is able to deal easily with downhill if properly tuned (tight alot the spokes). The hubs are Bonty's quality; just had to change the rear hub cone after a year (there's no seal like Shimano's). They don't need a lot of truing (but i'm doing freeride so... i swear it's not a rim who will stop my ride)Have to change the rear rim because it's cracked and I want discs. But this wheelset is the only thing I haven't changed yet on the bike, so it might be tough! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
CHRIS DYWELSKA
a Weekend Warrior
from WINDSOR
Date Reviewed: December 23, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | HIGHLAND HILLS , MICHIGAN | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | COURTESY BIKES WEST WINDSOR | | Strengths: | 3 CROSS SPOKE PATTERN | | Weaknesses: | NO NAME DISK HUBS | | Similar Products Used: | ARAYA TM820, WINNEMAN 519, MAVIC D521. | | Bike Setup: | TREK 8000LT, MARZOCCHE Z3 | | Bottom Line: | LETS FACE IT, AFTER MARKET THESE WOULD NOT BE
MUCH TO LOOK AT, YOU BUY BIKES IN PRICE GROUPS
AND CAN SEE WHERE MONEY WILL BE SPENT LATER,
BUT THERE ARE ALOT WORSE THINGS THEN TO HAVE
TO SPEND TIME WITH THESE RIMS, THEY HAVE STAYED
TRUE IN THE TIME I'VE HAD THEM AND I AM A LARGE
GUY 6'5 235. I COMMUTE EVERYDAY AND RIDE SINGLE
TRACK 3 TO 4 TIMES A WEEK LOTS OF ROOTS ROCKS
DROPS AND LOGS, FOR OEM RIMS THEY WORK GREAT,
SPEND YOUR MONEY SOMEWHERE ELS AND RIDE THESE
TIL (THEY) GIVE UP, OR YOU GO OUT OF YOUR WAY
TO PROVE YOU CAN BREAK THEM, THEY ARE NOT
DOWNHILL RIMS AND 4 AND 5 FOOT DROPS WILL DO
JUST THAT ATER A FEW MISSED LANDINGS, EVEN MY
9 YEAR OLD DAUHGTER CAN BREAK OEM RIMS, JUST
TAKE HER BIKE ON TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE AND
THROW IT OFF, GUESS WHAT I BROKE MY RIMS DAD
COOL EAH, THESE RIMS ARE FINE FOR OEM AND WILL
WORK FINE WHEN TREATED PROPERLY. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
s
a Cross Country Rider
from illinois
Date Reviewed: December 20, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | village cycle | | Strengths: | none at all! | | Weaknesses: | the rear wheel sucks, im 14 and only 115 lbs and i have had to have it trued 2 times within about 7 months | | Bike Setup: | stock trek 6000, soon upgrading wheels, full xtr and profile cranks | | Bottom Line: | the rear wheel sucks, im 14 and only 115 lbs and i have had to have it trued 2 times within about 7 months, thats from doing jumps that were only about 3 feet tall and doing 4-6 foot drop offs,i was luck that the bike shop trued the wheel both times and if everything gets loosened again, which i wouldnt doubt, i will get a new rear wheel. These wheels woudl only be good for people who woudl only use the biek for transportation | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Benjamin Larson
a Cross Country Rider
from Forest Lake, MN
Date Reviewed: December 12, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | home made MX track | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Very strong, pretty light for a stock wheel. | | Weaknesses: | A slight noise from the hubs when rolling at low speed. | | Similar Products Used: | None, came stock on my first "real" mtb. | | Bike Setup: | Trek 4900 with Profile bar ends, GT pedals and a Sigma bike computer. | | Bottom Line: | An excellent wheelset for people who abuse their wheels. These wheels came stock on my bike and I have jumped them a lot, occasionaly botching a landing. I've also taken them up to the north shore a couple of times and bombed through some rock fields and through all this they have remained true. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dean
a Cross Country Rider
from Forest Hills, New York
Date Reviewed: November 15, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Solid, hubs and rims are pretty good for a cheap, stock rim | | Weaknesses: | Somewhat heavy | | Similar Products Used: | While not really similar, I also use Bontrager Race Lites and Dave's Speed Dream Wheels | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6000 | | Bottom Line: | The Corvairs came stock on the Trek 6000. They are pretty good for stock equipment on a moderately priced mountain bike. They have machined rims that hold up to some hard riding, brake pretty well and the hubs are reasonably smooth and durable. The hubs also have a nice clicking sound. I only replaced them to lighten the rotational mass on my bike. I have kept them for future use though. Overall, 4 stars. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike Middendorf
a Cross Country Rider
from Stevens Point WI USA
Date Reviewed: November 15, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | backwoods | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Fairly light weight and strong | | Weaknesses: | Need to be trued quite often. | | Similar Products Used: | Huffy crap | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Gary Fisher Tassajara, Bontrager FS 2000 seat, Shimano XT front der., LX rear der., Shimano 545 pedals. | | Bottom Line: | Nice stock rims, hold up to abuse very well. I jump my bike off anything, and I am 6'3" and 230 lbs which puts alot of strain on the rims. I have probably put about 1000+ miles on the rims. I have had to true them a couple of times, but part of problems was that my tire pressure was to low. Other than that they have performed beautifully for stock rims that you can't buy on the aftermarket. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ed Elefante
a Weekend Warrior
from Phoenix
Date Reviewed: September 27, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Any | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Swiss American | | Strengths: | Since these were stock on the first "REAL" bike that I purchased, they are really light and have been true for as long as I have owned them. I have put about 1600 miles on my bike and no major problems. | | Weaknesses: | None... I could use another pair, so I don't have to keep swithing my knobbies for slicks, depending on what kind of cycling i am doing...
| | Similar Products Used: | ... | | Bike Setup: | '99 Trek VRX200 | | Bottom Line: | After reading the other comments, since I am not real hardcore on bouldering and trails... I really haven't tested them. But for the riding that I have done, they have been great! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rich Sea
a Cross Country Rider
from Cape Town
Date Reviewed: September 12, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | manor house SA | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Havent been destroyed yet | | Weaknesses: | I use these both for racing - they came stock on a 99 Klein Attitude - and for everyday riding. Doing a lot of freeriding technical singletrack on rocks now so these wheels take a bashing. I bent the rim twice in three weeks - but mainly due to riding low pressure tyres over the rocks. Changed tyrew to WTB nanoraptors 2.40 so no rim problem anymore. Had to replace 4 spokes the other day but after 2000 miles off road that is quite good going I think. Havent checked the brake surface but I guess they will wear through eventually. Not sure if i would buy again - prob go for Rolf or XT 517 combo. | | Bike Setup: | Klein Pace Pro 36 carbon fork (FANTASTIC) | | Bottom Line: | Fine as stock wheels - just use them until they die ...... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Calvin
a
from Destin, FL
Date Reviewed: August 18, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Serve their purpose (roll from point A to B) | | Weaknesses: | Cheap but vertically challenged | | Similar Products Used: | Rolf Dolomite, Bontrager Mustangs, etc | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6k, Titec (Seatpost, bar ends, bars), XT (BB, crank, levers, etc..) | | Bottom Line: | The rims serve their purpose. I don't believe you can buy them aftermarket since they only are found on stock bikes.
Not sure how much they actually weigh but with the cheap alloy hub I would guess I could knock of about 1-1.5 lbs. just by ugrading. Overall, they are ok for a newbie or for a spare set but the easiest way to lighten up your ride is to upgrade your stock wheelset and that is what I am about to do to my ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ted
a Cross Country Rider
from Okinawa, Japan
Date Reviewed: May 14, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Strong, true, and fairly light! | | Weaknesses: | Have not noticed any.. | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic and other Bonts | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6500 w/SID, Kore Elite, and XTR | | Bottom Line: | These wheels came stock on my ride. I don't always ride them, but I do use them for my trash wheels. The weather here is nasty, always humid as hell if a typhoon isn't brewing. The majority of trails here are infested with coral, and boulders so these wheels take a beetin all the way around. And that's without doing a lick of maintenance on em.. Thus far no problems at all!!!! Not even with the cosmetics. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Collin
a Cross Country Rider
from S.C
Date Reviewed: May 12, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Weaknesses: | Always needed truing | | Similar Products Used: | Department store junk | | Bike Setup: | C-dale super V 1000 | | Bottom Line: | These came stock on a Trek 6000 I bought in 99 then I got a deal on this C-dale I couldn't pass up. I put about 1700-2000 miles on the rims. During these miles they required a lot of maintainance. Then the spokes started breaking after 6 spokes (one of which caught my derailer and cost me a new one)I am now shopping for a new wheel set. For what it's worth I do ride hard. Buy them if you dont't plan on riding hard. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ed
a Weekend Warrior
from Bay Area, California USA
Date Reviewed: April 20, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Looks good, sort of light | | Weaknesses: | Bearings, adjustment, factory grease | | Similar Products Used: | Numerous wheelsets | | Bike Setup: | Klein Attitude Comp- XTR, Chris King | | Bottom Line: | These wheels came stock on my bike. They are a decent pair of wheels, but whoever at the factory put this wheelset together doesn't know how to grease and adjust a hub. Also, my LBS should of inspected my bike more closely before selling it...another story.
These wheels are strong. They still run true, but then again I don't go boulder dashing either. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dusty
a Weekend Warrior
from Earth
Date Reviewed: March 2, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | They are light compared to some other wheelsets and are reasonably priced | | Weaknesses: | They don't take abused well within 9 months 4 of which I didn't ride, they basically came apart on me. I'll admitt I'm rough on things but come on 5 months of riding and they're shot. | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager racelights
mavic 517 | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6000, stock | | Bottom Line: | These weren't bad wheels, I guess I'm just reckless. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matthew
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: February 1, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | As before (See 1st review on page....Strong/light) | | Weaknesses: | As before (See 1st review on Page....Not robust, IMPOSSIBLE TO GET REPLACEMENT PARTS IN THE UK)
| | Similar Products Used: | Mavic, Rolf | | Bike Setup: | Klein Attitude Race (upgraded from a Comp under warrenty)
Middleburn Rings, XTR front mech etc | | Bottom Line: | One year one from my 1st review.....and Bontrager STILL claim they cannot get any replacement parts for the hubs in the UK...WHAT IS GOING ON????....The second set of wheels have now worn out (Bearings/cones) so I now have TWO PAIRS of useless wheels taking up space in my shed...I'll buy Mavic next time....Bontrager will see no more of MY money | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matthew
a Cross-Country Rider
from Essex, UK
Date Reviewed: September 1, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
Light, Fast, Look good with the radial front spokes. Still true as the day I got them, depite my lardie waistline & hard riding. | | Weaknesses: |
Cones dont last, and trying to get replacements has proven impossable........
Black paint finish started to lift after the 1st three months, making them look crap (And starting to corrode!) | | Similar Products Used: |
Mavics, Rolfs | | Bike Setup: |
'99 Klein Attitude Comp, XTR front mech/crank, sachs chain, Yeti grips, | | Bottom Line: | Strong & light, but not robust.
Paint finish looks worn due to corrosion under the paint.
Cones required replacement after 5 months due to massive amounts of pitting...trying to get replacements has proven impossible in the UK after 6 weeks of having them on order & still waiting.They got the manufactoring all wrong with the rims....putting the paint finish on them and THEN drilling/punching the spoke holes is crap.....it starts the paint lifting, water gets underneath and the next thing, the paint is flaking off.
I managed to get a new pair of wheels under warranty, and having looked at them, I suspect these will suffer the same paint-lifting problem.......
WHY ARE THERE NO SPARE CONES/BEARINGS IN THE UK????.....
I would use shimano, but they have a different contour & not interchangable.
Strong/true rims, that suffer excessive corrosion, bearings/cones made of soft lead! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ben baker
a Cross-Country Rider
from arkansas
Date Reviewed: July 29, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
lake leatherwood | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
double wall / cheap / bontrager hubs / light / good quality..... | | Weaknesses: |
absoluteley none | | Similar Products Used: |
wienman 519---- piece of #%%^ wheels
mavic cross link ------
too x-pensive | | Bike Setup: |
trek 6500 with icon stem and judy c ---nice | | Bottom Line: | these wheels are best for the buck just like the bike trek has the best line-up for how cheap the bikes are..... five flaiming turds !!!!!!!! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
spud
a Cross-Country Rider
from fonthill
Date Reviewed: June 13, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Bottom Line: | I got these wheels stock on my trek 7ooo. These wheels a nice and light, the rear rim is ASYM(dish,device thingie. makes rim stronger). They are slightly out of true, but i ride really hard so.... the rear hub is kind of loud but you dont notice while riding. so any hoo ...buy these wheels! | | Overall Rating: |
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