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Submitted by
Daniel Johnson
a Cross Country Rider
from Richardson, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: April 8, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$130.00 | | Purchased At: | online | | Strengths: | Light. Front wheel seems to hold up well. | | Weaknesses: | Rear wheel spokes loosen after every ride. I have had the rear wheel in the bike shop 5 times for the exact same thing. There is never any difference. | | Similar Products Used: | WTB | | Bike Setup: | Raleigh M40, XT everything. J2 fork. | | Bottom Line: | I commute A LOT on this bike on some serious city streets. The rear wheel has taken a pretty severe beating in the 500 miles I have put on it. And the spokes wont stay tight. I am going with something else. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
3pax
a Weekend Warrior
from QC
Date Reviewed: August 22, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | G-net Bicycles | | Strengths: | lightweight, durable, signature mavic decals, seldom immitated | | Weaknesses: | very commonly used, paint fades | | Similar Products Used: | WTB Speedisc, | | Bike Setup: | S-Works M5, XT groupset, Avid Juicy5, FSA Carbons, Mavic 321's, DT Swiss Spokes, Cateye electronics, Specialized Pro Tires | | Bottom Line: | The 223's are very reliable and gives you best bang for your buck. I've been using it for almost 3 years already and never failed me since. Although it is no longer highlighted in the Mavic website, it is a very reliable entry-mid level rim. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a Weekend Warrior
from Quezon City, Philippines
Date Reviewed: August 24, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Maarat | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | Newton Bikes | | Strengths: | weight, brand name | | Weaknesses: | rim paint fade | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | Giant XTC hybrid, Rockshox Reba SL, Shimano XT groupset. DT swiss spokes. | | Bottom Line: | used it for 2 years without any problems. rim stayed true even when i crashed. value for money. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ldopa
a Cross Country Rider
from Norman, OK
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | Jenson USA | | Strengths: | Suprisingly decent rim for the money. Has held up to very moderate though consistent riding. | | Weaknesses: | none found (at least for non aggressive riding) | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager (DT Swiss) | | Bike Setup: | Fuel 90 spec'd out with all the typical goodies(Fox RLT, Easton carbon, XTR rear, XT drive, Juicy 7's | | Bottom Line: | I recommend this highly for though hesitant of dropping a wad on some higher priced hoops. Bought these laced with Wheelsmith spokes and XT hubs for @ $150 as a last minute emergency purchase, and intended for them to be temps for a trip I went on. Well needless to say I soon forgot about the wheelset I originaly intended for my bike, I guess that gives these a gold star. I suppose these aren't super hoops but if you don't notice them then they're doing their job. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ldopa
a Cross Country Rider
from Norman, OK
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | Jenson USA | | Strengths: | Suprisingly decent rim for the money. Has held up to very moderate though consistent riding. | | Weaknesses: | none found (at least for non aggressive riding) | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager (DT Swiss) | | Bike Setup: | Fuel 90 spec'd out with all the typical goodies(Fox RLT, Easton carbon, XTR rear, XT drive, Juicy 7's | | Bottom Line: | I recommend this highly for though hesitant of dropping a wad on some higher priced hoops. Bought these laced with Wheelsmith spokes and XT hubs for @ $150 as a last minute emergency purchase, and intended for them to be temps for a trip I went on. Well needless to say I soon forgot about the wheelset I originaly intended for my bike, I guess that gives these a gold star. I suppose these aren't super hoops but if you don't notice them then they're doing their job. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Hito
a Weekend Warrior
from Ann Arbor
Date Reviewed: September 5, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Island Lake | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Strong rim for XC. (Not meant for 200+lb, jump off cliff riders.) | | Weaknesses: | None really. | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager Corvair | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Epic tricked out. | | Bottom Line: | This is a followup review. After about 30 miles of agressive XC, I had to true it. The wheel exhibited wobble in the front and hop in the rear. I had it trued by a professional at a bike shop. Now I got over 100miles on the bike. The wheel still spins straight and round like an super expensive custom made rim.
I think the X317 which comes on other bikes is tad lighter, but the X223 sure is stronger. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ko Saynourath
a Weekend Warrior
from Wheat Ridge, CO USA
Date Reviewed: July 28, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | all Denver front range trails | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | ebat | | Strengths: | Tough as nails, four seasons and still perfecty true. | | Weaknesses: | weight, maybe? I don't know how much these weigh but they're probably not XC light. | | Bike Setup: | Giant VT1 | | Bottom Line: | These came on an Epic I bought used on ebay with a season of riding on them already. I have since sold the Epic and kept the rims on my Giant VT. These have been used for four seasons total and they have been only trued once while the Shimano hubs they are laced to are shot to hell. Keep having to tighten the hubs after every few rides.. I'm only 150 lbs which isn't much, but I ride agressively with some drops on some technical trails on Denver's front range in the Rocky Mountains. If you've ever ridden trails here, you know how abusive the terrain is on bikes. These are the only rims I've ever owned and I see no need to buy rims that cost hundreds more when these have never given me any problems. You should buy these rims because they're affordable and will last you. Don't buy these if you're the type of rider who needs to spend hundreds of dollars on "nicer" rims just for the sake of having more expensive rims. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Hito
a Weekend Warrior
from Ann Arbor, MI
Date Reviewed: July 25, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Island Lake | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Strong and durable enough for light riders. It is also light enough for XC use. Now please do not be an ignorant fool and compare this to the super expensive crossmax. Those rims are not the same as this one. | | Weaknesses: | May not be strong enough for 200+ pound riders, but I don't know. | | Bike Setup: | Tricked out Epic | | Bottom Line: | I weigh around 150lb, and I ride agressively. I had to true it once as it exhibited minor wobble after couple of months of riding, but even those expensive CROSSMAX wheels would need truing after a while.
Do buy this rim if:
1. You weigh under 200 pounds and do fast agressive XC trails and not jump off stuff constantly. (I do perform minor jumps and rockhopping on the trail but I always try to land with less impact.)
Don't buy this rim if:
1. You are a fat dude with 200+ pounds and do fast agressive XC and jump off obstacles constantly.
By reading some of the below reviews, I have to either think of these possibilities.
1. Bad reviewers just happened to get the bad quality ones.
2. They are just stupid and did insane jumps and D/H.
3. They weigh 200+ pounds.
So there you have it. It has been working awesome for me. I talked to a bike shop dude about upgrading these, but he looked at me saying, "This is a pretty good rim. Why do you want to ditch it?" and I felt like a fool. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
bernie
a Weekend Warrior
from Laguna, Philippines
Date Reviewed: April 29, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Caliraya Trails | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | Ross | | Strengths: | Sturdy, Steady, Strong, easy to align and it's a Mavic. | | Weaknesses: | For DB only | | Similar Products Used: | Rigida Taurus, Ukai and Araya VP | | Bike Setup: | XXtension FS witrh LX Group 05, easton stem & bars. | | Bottom Line: | Perhaps one of the best mavic rims ever produced, affordable yet quality still there. This rim can handle xc, trails, street and even I think mild DH. A wise choice, a wise buy, get it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chadd
a Weekend Warrior
from Marikina, Philippines
Date Reviewed: April 12, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Puray Montalban | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$18.00 | | Purchased At: | Extreme Bikes, Timog | | Strengths: | light and strong | | Weaknesses: | could be lighter/thicker | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic Deemax, Sun Rims | | Bike Setup: | Hardtail, Manitou Skareb, Deore gset, eastons | | Bottom Line: | 1) I endoed on this sucker, and no damage at all. I hit a u-rut and my then Judys did not like to recover.
2) A friend of mine hit my rear mavic while on a downhill run at 40kph. My bike was sleeping by the trail coz we were all resting; when the downhill rider lost control. He hit my wheel, which caused him to endo. My bike jumped half a meter to my other friend. The downhilling bike (also using these damn 223s) flew to me, hit me in my back, and the rider endoed over two riders and 2 bikes in like 5-6 meters forward.
No damages on the rims. That, my friend, is impressive stuff...for the rims. The rider is a whole diffrent story.
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Submitted by
Jason
a Weekend Warrior
from NC
Date Reviewed: November 18, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Strong, stay true | | Similar Products Used: | 217's, Mavic UST Tubeless, Corvairs. | | Bike Setup: | 2004 Enduro Expert | | Bottom Line: | I have had to tighten the spokes once after I located the evasive clicking sound coming from somewhere within my bike. This was when I first got the bike and I haven't had a problem since. I have cased a few jumps, endoed, and guided my front tire into the side of a creek bed like a missle a couple of weeks ago after steering off a bridge/creek crossing. I expected to see some damage after a few of those crashes but haven't so these rims get my vote. I ride rooty/rocky trails and these things hold up well. I would like my entire wheelset to be a little lighter and roll better but who doesn't? | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve
a Cross Country Rider
from Monrovia, CA
Date Reviewed: October 12, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | supergo | | Strengths: | Does everything well. | | Weaknesses: | Could be lighter. | | Bike Setup: | Schwinn Rocket 88 disc, fox rear, michelin, DT Swiss hubs & spokes. | | Bottom Line: | These wheels came with the bike and I've had no problems. I'm 6' 200lbs and I haven't had anything fail. I do check spoke tension and inspect after every ride, but I surprised by the bad reviews. I'm buying another pair to put on a hard tail that I building on a small budget. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Graham
a Cross Country Rider
from Christchurch, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: September 19, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | victoria park | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$190.00 | | Purchased At: | web auction | | Strengths: | weight - not much else | | Weaknesses: | lack strength - tacoed front wheel after 2 months riding. | | Similar Products Used: | sun rhynolite. wtb speed disk. mavic 519. | | Bike Setup: | k2 evo. Psylos, lx/xt mix, hayes disks. | | Bottom Line: | These rims are useless!! I bought a new set to reduce weighton the bike for mainly xc / singletrack use. I am a 160lb rider who rides agressive xc but not hard core drops or dh. What a mistake!!
Rims never felt good. The final straw was when the front tacoed on a steepish technical section. Good riddance I say! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Derek Jordan
a Racer
from Bellingham
Date Reviewed: August 12, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | Bellingham | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Bob's Cycle Sport | | Strengths: | Decently light weight, strong (unless, perhaps, you are obese) and raceworthy, they look good on my bike. Came stock on a Cannondale F1000. | | Weaknesses: | None thus far, after riding very hard and often on them for 1.5 years. | | Similar Products Used: | These are the first disc-brake specific wheels I've owned. | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F1000 hardtail. Ti Lefty DLR fork-tine, LX crank, XT rear hub (also cool), SRAM drive, Hayes hydro disc brakes, EA 70 handlebar, eggbeaters, etc. etc. | | Bottom Line: | This is my first disc brake/and rim setup. I used to go through rim brake wheels like berries through a bear. Yet these have been put though a full season and a half of XC trail riding, training for racing, and a race, and are performing as good as new, as far as I can tell. I've had to do a couple of very minor truing touch-ups about four times in a year, even though these are laced with very light, butted spokes. Other than that, zero issues.
Frankly, I'm a bit sick of seeing valuable products such as this receive poor ratings due to the abuses of greatly overweight riders. If you are 80lbs overweight, please don't expect much from XC racing gear! Use the freeride stuff. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Weekend Warrior
from JP, MA
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | foxboro | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | reasonable price | | Weaknesses: | not for 185+ riders | | Similar Products Used: | Richey Rock comp | | Bike Setup: | ironhorse hollowpoint sport - time pedals - xt shifters - pc99 chain | | Bottom Line: | Only used 5 times before I bent the side wall of the rim. I rode my richey rock comp rims on my specialize rockhopper and never had a problem for the last 4 years. Maybe it was a fluke or something. Just giv'n you all a heads up | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Garry Bowen
a Cross Country Rider
from Sydney Australia
Date Reviewed: November 11, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Nasho | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Purchased with bike | | Strengths: | Strong light and stays true. In 2 years of agressive crosscoutry I have had few problems | | Weaknesses: | Not for the hardcore.... Folded the flange over in one place after hitting a root VERY hard. Still holds tire on though.... | | Similar Products Used: | Various. | | Bike Setup: | Avanti hammer hardtail. Deore/LX/Judy fork | | Bottom Line: | This is a good rim. It came with my bike but I would purchase it again if I was buying wheels. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Levi Walker
a Cross Country Rider
from Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Date Reviewed: August 24, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Very lightweight. Great breaking surface and the look great! | | Weaknesses: | None. I would actually by them again if I could. | | Similar Products Used: | Nothing similar in my book. | | Bike Setup: | LTS-3 w/ Fox air rear, SID front, XTR comp, Profile stem, Chris KIng ahead set, Avid brakes w/Avid levers, and Mavic 223 w/ XTR hubs. | | Bottom Line: | I actually purchased a pair of Crossmax's and even the rotational weight was greater than the 223's. So I took the back. Call me crazy but I don't follow the trends. I can't take someones word I have to check. And to me the 223's are just perfect. Anyone looking for a great value and is competitive. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
LIN
a Weekend Warrior
from San Diego, CA
Date Reviewed: August 5, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Looks kinda cool. | | Weaknesses: | small dent after it fell off my roof rack at 70mph in the freeway. | | Bike Setup: | cannondale f900sl stock | | Bottom Line: | i guess its ok because it came with the bike. wouldnt have been my first choice. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
yerffeJ ddoT
a Weekend Warrior
from SoCal
Date Reviewed: July 31, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | All are good, some better than others. . . . | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Strengths: | Everything. They have needed little tuning, the finish has lasted great, the spokes have not tried to pull the eyelets up through the rim, tires are easy to install and remove, pinch flatted only once and they look good too. | | Weaknesses: | I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'. . . . . . | | Similar Products Used: | Only disc specific rim I have used. | | Bike Setup: | 99 Cannondale Super V 900 Mostly stock with SL cartridge in Headshock, WTB saddle, Tioga DH or WTB V-Raptor tires and Azonic riser bar. | | Bottom Line: | I am 6'5" and weigh 265 pounds and I have had these rims for 4 years. I don't ride them off the roof of the house or perform any "North Shore" type stunts, but I do ride some fairly rough terrain here. I have also ridden them into curbs at speed and on the local downhill course many times (although I take a "little" more than four minutes to complete it, unlike the pros that race it a couple times a year). On a night ride, I hit a rock large enough to clean me off the bike into a perfect Flying W demonstration that broke my Bell helmet. I honestly don't understand how some people have managed to tear up these rims as claimed (J.R.A.).
I have just updated to Hayes discs (from the original Magura Louise's) and had to buy a new wheelset today because the Magura Comp hubset won't accept the Hayes discs unless I am willing to grind on them (I'm not). What did I get? Another set of 223's.
Apparently YMMV, but I'm handing out five stinky steamers for value and four for overall because you can probably get lighter wheels that are as strong or stronger even though it would co$t you. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ryan R
a Cross Country Rider
from Long Island NY
Date Reviewed: July 26, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Ones with dirt on em | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came with the bike | | Strengths: | Good CHEAP disc rim, Verylight weight and almost no weight penalty to them. | | Weaknesses: | The Strenghts are also the weaknesses to them as well, They are light weight and are easily bent once bent I hope you own a truing stand because they will cost you a small fortune in truing. | | Similar Products Used: | WTB Laser Beam, Sun, Mavic | | Bike Setup: | 02 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR With pleanty of goodies | | Bottom Line: | I belive these rims have a low weight restriction! If you weigh in at about 150 to 170 you fine anything else you toast I weigh in at 200 and have beat these rims to hell. I've trued the back on three time and the front on twice. Before I bent them they were fine and went with out truing for about three months but once you true once the party's over. I'm looking into a set of Mavic F 219's anyone who's looking for a good light disc rim send me an e-mail. They feel like a good light XC race rim but for everyday use forget it you'll kill them! anyone who's looking to go disc cheap it's a good rim to start with experienced rider will shread these, Freeriding is definatly a NO NO and they can take some light jumping NO DROPS! PEACE! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Brian
a Cross Country Rider
from Boulder Creek, Ca
Date Reviewed: March 10, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Wilder Ranch | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$165.00 | | Purchased At: | Jenson USA | | Strengths: | Good price for disc specific rim | | Weaknesses: | none yet | | Similar Products Used: | mavic and sun rims | | Bike Setup: | Santa Cruz Superlight, all xt with Avid Mech disc brakes | | Bottom Line: | These rims were part of a xt/223 disc specific wheelset from Jenson USA. So far no problems, but I only weigh 150lbs and ride strictly cross country with no drop offs greater than 5 feet max. If I had the extra money I would have bought 317's but if you are on a budget this is a decent way to go. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gen
a Weekend Warrior
from Exeter, NH
Date Reviewed: February 27, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Fort Rock | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Came with Bike | | Strengths: | Cheap and haven't broken yet | | Weaknesses: | Need to be trued once in a while, but all wheels do. | | Similar Products Used: | Came stock on my Cannondale F900 and F2000 | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F2000, Fatty SL, Coda Discs, 223s | | Bottom Line: | These rims have come stock on two of my bikes and I haven't had a problem with either set. It all depends on how they're built. If you get them built by someone who knows what they're doing you should be fine with just about any rim for a xc/trailrider. These are obviously not freeride or downhill rims. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Michael
a Weekend Warrior
from Aiken, SC
Date Reviewed: December 15, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Horn Creek | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | These came with my '02 Giant NRS2 purchased November '01. I have around 1500 offroad, XC-type riding miles on these rims. I do zero hucking, shucking, jiving, jumping, whatever you want to call it. I ride XC style, have been for over ten years, and these rims have held up 100%. I have had several broken spokes but the LBS attributes them to the cheap hub that came on my early-model NRS2 (not XT, and the spokes all break at the hub flange). Outstanding durability. I have wanted to upgrade my hubs from day one, but these wheels have never given me a reason to want to screw with'em. | | Weaknesses: | Zero problems encountered. | | Bike Setup: | Giant NRS2 with lots of minor upgrades... | | Bottom Line: | If you are a XC-style rider, you should have no problems with them. Get them trued every so often and replace broken spokes as necessary. If you want to jump off roofs or whatever, then reconsider what you are buying (i.e. buy something made for that style). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jason
a Weekend Warrior
from Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Date Reviewed: November 27, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Darkstar | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | came stock on my rockhopper | | Strengths: | I ride a P3 and the rear wheel went to crap, so I swapped the 32hole 223 rim/ wheel from my rockhopper and set it all up just so i could be riding. I am honestly suprised at how well this rim has performed, insane urban riding, huge drops, and hauling a$$. I gave it about 2 weeks and it is still going strong 2 months later. | | Weaknesses: | 32 hole and it is super skinny. | | Similar Products Used: | rhynolites, trailpimps, single tracks, bfr's | | Bike Setup: | came on Rockhopper-> put on P3 | | Bottom Line: | I dont think I would go out and spend the money on this individual rim, but overall I am pleased with its performance. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jim
a
from Southern California
Date Reviewed: November 4, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | secret one with dinosaurs | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$180.00 | | Purchased At: | supergo | | Strengths: | cheep, looks cool, says "mavic" so you feel confident that it's good. | | Weaknesses: | French. | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager rims. | | Bike Setup: | short travel XC frame with AVID disc brakes. | | Bottom Line: | I'm chubby, 195lbs, and I ride over rocks and things, and these rims have taken it so far. This may be because of the high-wall XT hubs and 14 guage spokes, it's a stronger foundation for weaker rims. I have no idea how well these things will hold up to drops because I don't do that. I'm totally an XC climber type rider, and these things are still true and running great after 6 months. The seam does look lame...it's looks like it could split, but it hasn't. If these ever taco or get severely dented, I'll put on some 517's or something, but so far they work perfectly. These are not part of Mavic's "extreme MTB" series of rims, so complaining about them folding from a 6 foot drop is a little much. They're cheap XC rims that work. I'm sure I'll mess them up eventually, but I'll have gotten my money's worth. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SGT. ROCK
a Racer
from Edmonton, AB
Date Reviewed: August 16, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Durable
Easy to get tires on and off without levers (see below) | | Weaknesses: | Tire retention (see above) | | Similar Products Used: | Sun rims, ALEX rims | | Bike Setup: | 2000 GIANT ATX 890 | | Bottom Line: | These are good disc-specific rims, not spectacular, but decent. The one problem was the weak a$$ 15 gauge spokes GIANT laced them with - I broke several on the rear wheel until they were replaced with butted 14 gauge spokes. Not a rim defect, an poor assembly decision. Haven't had a problem with keeping them true.
Hard impacts can blow the tire off the rim because they are so shallow. Not a factor in racing, where this is a benefit in rapid flat repair, but they are not a jumping/big drop rim. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Luke
a
from IN
Date Reviewed: August 16, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Nebo | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Local Store | | Strengths: | Cross-Country ONLY! | | Weaknesses: | Too flemsy | | Similar Products Used: | numerous | | Bike Setup: | 2001 FSR Enduro Expert | | Bottom Line: | Pinch flatted and bent the back tire. Two weeks later...took a drop in WV and the front rim tacoed...and guess what..split at the seam. It's a piece. They won't replace it. I have to spend an extra bill on my 22 bill bike. Not cool. This product sucks for anyone who wants to really do something fun. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Phil Yates
a Cross Country Rider
from Auckland, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: April 25, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Lasted three months!! | | Weaknesses: | Weak as butter. | | Bottom Line: | The front rim folded like butter going around a corner!! No jump or drop off, just an easy, sandy corner. I've crashed many times in the previous 12 or so years on numerious mountain bikes but this rim has taken the cake for pathetic performance. Don't purchase if you expect to ride your bike off road. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy
a Cross Country Rider
from Austin
Date Reviewed: April 24, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | PricePoint | | Strengths: | They keep me rollin... reasonably light... reasonably strong... black... tires get on and off easy. | | Weaknesses: | Not laser true... dented easy. | | Similar Products Used: | Araya, Sun, 221, 222, Syncros | | Bike Setup: | two of these and a frame | | Bottom Line: | So far, I can't say these rims have any major flaws about em. I ride rocky, loose, technical, agressive xc and they've held up fine so far. I cased an awkward dip in the trail and pinched the rear, and later found a small dent in the side of the rim with resultant wacked true job, but a spot true fixed that (well, not the dent). I haven't had any severe trueing problems since then.
The riims are'nt fantastically light or whiz-bang, but for the price, that's OK. They don't true to laser perfection like some other rims I've seen, but since they're disk rims, I'm not too concerned.
I think trueing and preloading the wheels before riding the rims helped since a lot of reviews seem to tell contrary results. Machine built wheels, IMO, should never be trusted to hold up right off the bat. A little pre-trueing and tensioning goes a long way. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
zach lee
a
from northeast PA USA
Date Reviewed: March 5, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | many | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | stay some what true, didn't taco yet, look cool in black | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | wtb laser I-beam(also great)sun0degree light | | Bike Setup: | XT hub dt compeition spokes 3x on cannondale f900 | | Bottom Line: | This rim is not top of the line but still a great rim. It is not a downhill rim, made for XC and works great. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Stu Foster
a
from Burlington, CT
Date Reviewed: January 1, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | All of them | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Biker's Edge (came with bike) | | Strengths: | -they stay some-what round
-kind of light
| | Weaknesses: | -sidewalls dent
-come out of true very easly
-rim joint is crap | | Similar Products Used: | nothing | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Endure HT, Hayes hydro,Rock Shox PhyloXC | | Bottom Line: | These rims are for aggresive XC rideing. They will not hold up to people who do large drops and wieght much more than 150 LBS. Buy them if you want a cheep disc rim, and you are more into the XC thing. Freeriders and Downhillers should stay away from these, they are not beffy enough. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom
a Weekend Warrior
from op,kansas
Date Reviewed: December 29, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything fast and big air | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came stock on my giant | | Strengths: | light(kinda) cheap | | Weaknesses: | Very flexible when used for trials. Really weak, get flat spots easily, The flatspots on mine are so big that you can feel em through the Tioga DH's and the rear suspension. To heavy for how weak they are. | | Similar Products Used: | Zac-19(even worse) Sun Ryno light, i just put these on my bike, working great so far | | Bike Setup: | 2000 giant ds1 bashgaurd, sun ryno light 32hole xt disc hub, the rest stock | | Bottom Line: | These rims would be ok for a light weight light duty xc rider. Don't get these if freeriding or trials is in your future. If you do get em check the spokes constantly and stay away from those drops! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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