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Submitted by
Leon Nasar
a Racer
from Potomac, MD USA
Date Reviewed: January 7, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$435.00 | | Purchased At: | Ebay | | Strengths: | This bike is so fast and has awesome light wheels. The bike moves quickly to all commands | | Similar Products Used: | Trek 8000 | | Bottom Line: | Awesome Bike | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Arly
a Cross Country Rider
from Boston, MA
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | any mountain away from urban cowboys | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Purchased At: | wheelworks | | Strengths: | a true mountain bike! great for climbing and decending steep strails | | Weaknesses: | not recommended for around town or typical bike paths! it's a back killer for long stretches of straight trails | | Similar Products Used: | custom road bike | | Bottom Line: | if you are a true MOUNTAIN biker it doesn't get any better than this. if you are an flat trail or street rider forget it if you value your back.
Regarding some of the other reviews trashing the brand of components-ignore these as they are irrelevant to performance and durability. I have had top of the line European and Japanese components that failed unexpectedly and almost killed me. Most likely the reported wheel problems were due to improper checking, trueing and setup by the bike dealers | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew
a Cross Country Rider
from NN,VA USA
Date Reviewed: May 11, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Come with bike | | Strengths: | Long lasting, Came with XT rear hub. Light weight, long lasting, lateral lace in front. | | Weaknesses: | Weld cam apart, in and out of LBS to have the trued. | | Bike Setup: | XT/XTR 03' Psylo Race, metal matrix frame | | Bottom Line: | Held up great for thier age, was not inpressed with the weld on the rear, like the XT rear hub and the front Specialized was great, had no problems with the lateral lace had tension problems in the back. Great for the beginner rider, and those who don't hit the trails often, but don't be surprised when the crap out on you after a little abuse, or hard riding. Though they withstood the test of time as far a general wear - bearings, braking surface, ect. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Manuel Ang
a Cross Country Rider
from Bothell, WA USA
Date Reviewed: July 25, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Jury still out on this one. | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | World's crappiest LBS - Greggs on Greenlake! | | Strengths: | They look sweet! I also hear that Mavics are good rims! | | Weaknesses: | Sounds like people don't like them! | | Similar Products Used: | I had a Rockhopper with Ritchey OCRs, and I tried a pair of Rhyno Lites | | Bike Setup: | 2k1 SJ Pro | | Bottom Line: | Ah the glorious wheelset. Probably the best for XC on a bike, but I wouldn't know. What I do know is that they have that hot and on fire look that makes you go fast while standing still. Killer looks aside the front wheel is Mavic 517x raidally laced with some specialized hub and a burly QR. I realy like the front wheel, It is incredibly light with either the stock s-works tire (the excelent team control SL) or with my hutchingtons top slick. They are perfect XC tires or for some agro MTB, they are exceptional for road. I would not/do not use them for free riding or DH -- come on, know the limits/intentions of your product. I'm sure they could have made the wheel look and perform better with an XTR or similar quality hub. The rear wheel is a shimano hub( I think XT level) built on 517x. The rear wheel is good and has stood up to some serious pounding. It is pretty light for a rear wheel and I like it, I'm sure there are lighter wheels around, but for stock these are some of the best. Keep them true and they'll be true to you! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tim Reed
a Cross Country Rider
from Atlanta
Date Reviewed: October 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | the ones around my house in GSO | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came on bike | | Strengths: | They look like a good high end wheelset | | Weaknesses: | Weak rims, noisy hubs | | Similar Products Used: | Been riding XT hubs with Sun Rino Lites, and XTR hubs on Sun CR 17's | | Bike Setup: | Kelly full suspension, Sid XC, Risse Genisis rear shock, XTR cranks, XTR V Brakes, XTR FD, Sram 7.0 RD, Sram 9.0 Shifters, Avid 2.0 levers (awesome), King Head set, Thompson Seat Post, Kelly custom stem, and Stumpjumper wheels up until this afternoon. | | Bottom Line: | The wheels were slightly used when I got them, and at first while riding around the parking lot of my apartment, I thought they would be fine until I could get another pair. I'm kind of a large rider (220#'s), and it's obvious that these were not designed for heavier people. If I had done this to other rims over the past 5 years, I'd give them the benifit of the doubt; however, I've been riding both pair of Sun rims for some time and never had a problem. I only got 3 rides out of them before they were totaly trashed. The rear hub started making all kinds of noise, and this afternoon I tacoed the rear wheel. If I had paid big bucks for them, I would have been really dissapointed. Now I just got an excuse to buy a new set of wheels. These wheels are probably great for a 120# rider...but not for the Clydesdales. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bobert
a Racer
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: October 5, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | They look like a high performance wheelset. | | Weaknesses: | Hub, rim & spokes. | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized bottom brackets, specialized cranks, specialized tires & specialized stems & handlebars. | | Bike Setup: | Specialized bottom brackets, specialized cranks, specialized tires & specialized stems & handlebars. | | Bottom Line: | When will specialized stop making this garbage? It is an embarassment to the rest of the cycling world. If you are thinking of buying their product think again. I only endorse their computers and saddles. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
brandon talley
a
from portland,or
Date Reviewed: August 13, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | any singletrack | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Work great. Don't know why they have such bad reviews. Only trued them once. | | Weaknesses: | Ummm... | | Similar Products Used: | Sun Sub IV- tought to get tires off this rim | | Bike Setup: | 01' stumpjumper fsr xc comp | | Bottom Line: | Happy with the wheelset. No problems. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a Cross Country Rider
from Tucson,AZ
Date Reviewed: June 2, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | chiva falls | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1050.00 | | Purchased At: | Full Cycle | | Strengths: | If you don't ride hard take comfort in the fact that they look cool cause that is it. | | Weaknesses: | weak rims, piss poor hubs | | Similar Products Used: | shimano xt hubs, Bontrager rims | | Bike Setup: | stock stumpjumper m2 comp | | Bottom Line: | These damn wheels about ruined my road trip!!
had it not been for a really cool guy at a bike shop in college station, Texas who sold me a used front wheel for $30 I'd have been screwed. the front wheel taco'd for no damn reason.(it was a mild endo, and the spokes were tight).
then 4 days later the rear hub locked up and NOBODY carries parts for specialized hubs!!!!
IF YOUR STUMPJUMPER HAS THESE WHEELS DONT TRUST THEM!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Josh
a Cross Country Rider
from Lincolnshire, IL
Date Reviewed: April 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Kettle Morain | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came on Stumpjumper Bike | | Strengths: | Light, Cheap | | Weaknesses: | Bends EXTREMELY eaisily, Cheap | | Similar Products Used: | Sun Rhyno Lite, Mavic Crossmax UST Disc | | Bike Setup: | Shimano XT Drivetrain, Manitou SX-R Fork, Specialized M4 Frame | | Bottom Line: | THESE WHEELS ARE CRAP! THEY BEND!!!!! I had full tire pressure and i went of a CURB and i have a huge bend, rendering them UNRIDABLE due to severe brake rub. DO NOT BUY THEM! THEY SUCK!!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David
a Racer
from Dallas, Texas USA
Date Reviewed: January 20, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Erwin Park | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$1500.00 | | Purchased At: | Richardson Bike Mart | | Strengths: | -nothing fancy wheel
-strong
-easy to true
-Mavic 517 rim.
-not too heavy | | Weaknesses: | -not a fancy wheel
-not a good racing wheel
-not areodynamic | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager Race
Rolf Dolomite
Crossmax | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Specialized M2 Pro | | Bottom Line: | -great for training
-durable
-Mavic 517 rim
-descent if it comes with the bike but as a on the market wheel it aint that good. If you are looking for a good wheel with out dumping your wallet just get an XT or XTR hub with a maviv 517 rim (the hub is much better than specialized). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SHAWN SR
a Cross Country Rider
from SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Date Reviewed: November 24, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Decent looking wheels. The Specialized front hub is Nice. Not bad for wheels on a $900.00 bike. | | Weaknesses: | The wheels havent held true very long. The Specialized fron skewer is hard to opperate. Would like to have a wheel set that's lighter, stronger and holds true longer. | | Similar Products Used: | My wifes bike has a 97 version of these wheels. Her's have held true longer. | | Bike Setup: | These wheels came on My 98 stumpjumper Pro. They are now on My Moots YBBeat. | | Bottom Line: | These wheels are pretty good considering that I paid $900.00 for the bike they came on. I've had a hard time getting these wheels to hold true for long. My friend bought the same bike with these wheels. His have stayed true but there's stress cracks foarming at the nipples. Don't know why, he weighs only 150 pounds and rides about 25% as much as I do and on bike paths. Another funny thing is that My radial laced front stays a whole lot truer than My 3 cross rear. I can't knock these wheels, but I'm looking to get something better next time. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ali
a Cross Country Rider
from Vienna, Virginia, USA
Date Reviewed: April 26, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Avalon Area (patapsco state park MD) | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | price is good, rims are good mavic 222, the front hub felt solid/good controll steering. | | Weaknesses: | hubs are not rebuildable, therefore, they suck. had to replace the whole freakin wheelset, rather than simply rebuild the rear hub, when it finly failed. | | Similar Products Used: | crappy entry level shimano hubs on no name rims... | | Bike Setup: | 99 stunjumper comp, with IRC Mythos XC tires 2.1" , SRAM gripshift 9.0sl shift/derailer, bontrager mustang rims/98 Xt hubs are the replacement wheelset.
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| | Bottom Line: | these are ok for a stock product, but dont buy them.
buy a wheelset that has rebuildable hubs and perhaps lighter if you can. if they come stock-- cool ride it then upgrade as they eventuall start to fail. if you want cheap: go for light wheelset: SUN SUB IV rims on '00 XT hubs or better.
These are ok for stock product, but dont upgrade to these wheels. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bob
a Racer
from Moab, Utah, U.S.
Date Reviewed: March 25, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | There are none they really suck!!! | | Weaknesses: | Everything. Squeaky. Weak. Heavy. Don't stay in true. Really suck. | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic crossmax. Bongtrager race lite. | | Bottom Line: | They really suck never get them. I hate them so much!!!! No dead flaming horses. I guess I have to give them one. It hurts me to do it. They suck!!!! Bottom line...they suck NEVER get them. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Fast Ed
a Cross-Country Rider
from Westboro MA
Date Reviewed: November 23, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
NAM & BIG River RI | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Look nice, stay true. I love all red nipples | | Weaknesses: |
HUB freewheel poor quality and skewers work poorly | | Similar Products Used: |
XT.LX Whheels | | Bike Setup: |
Custom M2 | | Bottom Line: | Wheels look nice(black hubs, rims and spokes with red nipples) and have stay true through not quite so soft (read hacker) touch. However two things suck on this wheel. After less than a month I snapped the internal mechanism that holds the freewheel. Its not shimano so had my LBS (Landry's in MA)not been super cool and replaced it witha new one off the shelf, I would have had to special order the part. Man, when they shhowed the part I thought, that looks way cheap. Also the skewers don't really hold the wheel in place. I am constantly pulling the wheel out of the dropouts, even though the skewers are totally torqued. I will say that the wheel build seems to have held up well. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
TK
a Weekend Warrior
from Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Date Reviewed: August 26, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Bike Setup: |
Stumpjumper,
now on my DEAN | | Bottom Line: | These wheels are great! I'm not sure what kinda riding the guy below does, but these have held up VERY well for me. I have thrashed them continually since last september and they run true and have had zero probs. Stout hub/222 fr., and a XT/222 rear. The stumpy is gone, but I still love the wheels. 5 flamers........... | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Goose
a Weekend Warrior
from Middletown
Date Reviewed: July 18, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
decently light | | Weaknesses: |
weak | | Bike Setup: |
mongoose rockidile sx with X-vert R | | Bottom Line: | they are a good wheelset for a beginner or intermediate rider. they can't hold up to alot of abuse though. i road them for a month and ended up having about 4 flat spots on my rim the spokes came loose while riding so make sure you tension them correctly. 2 flaming dead horses | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Racer
from IL
Date Reviewed: July 12, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Tsali | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Tough wheelset | | Weaknesses: |
Stout Pro hubs | | Similar Products Used: |
222 w/XT hubs, Cane Creek Crono | | Bike Setup: |
Stumpjumper Pro Full XTR, Sid XC | | Bottom Line: | Great for their cost | | Overall Rating: |
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