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Submitted by
Lyle
a Weekend Warrior
from Houston, Tx. USA
Date Reviewed: April 30, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | Jack Brooks | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Durable | | Weaknesses: | None | | Bike Setup: | 1998 GT Aggressor | | Bottom Line: | I have beat the hell out of these rims for TEN years now and I weigh 220lbs, jumps, curbs, you name it. The front one just recently finally got a tiny bit of warp but that's after 10 years! All this time no loose spokes or any maintainence. The 519s came on the GT and have proven to be very durable. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jim daletin
a Cross Country Rider
from miami, florida
Date Reviewed: February 12, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with the bike | | Strengths: | NONE | | Weaknesses: | any jump or trick you can think of. Duh | | Similar Products Used: | the folding wheel | | Bike Setup: | 2002 Raliegh | | Bottom Line: | First of all, this rim is not built to suit your needs, but might be good for someone who can't walk. Anyway, my choice of taking this wheel to the extreme failed and left a Barrage of cap in my face and probably anyone else who used it.
So i was going down hill when all of a sudden i see an obstacle. I was coming at it with a speed of about 15 mph.
Then out of nowhere, BAM!!! I was on the ground, standing up when a see a absoulete bent piece of cap. I live pretty far, so i was walking in pain and a bike in my hands. I hated the wheel so bad i was about to blow in pieces, but i didn't. (100 points for the wheel) A wheel this bad should have been in the local junk store years ago. This stuff is made of sit and can be used for a ventilation cap for a garbage can. Probably won't last.
Anyway, this wheel is recommened for people who own a bike but don't ride it at all and watch day and night. People who are more interested in using their bike, BUY A BETTER ONE. I hurt, so go buy a better one before u r toast.
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Submitted by
sh
a Weekend Warrior
from missouri
Date Reviewed: June 11, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | bike store | | Strengths: | not the rim, bends at the slightest pressure | | Weaknesses: | One word "YES" | | Bike Setup: | Mountain Bike | | Bottom Line: | I bent 1 rim jumping on the trail. then decided to get these for lighter weight. Did about a 4 inch hop at about 5 mph on a paved trail first time out and bent both rims to the side. Had to stand bike over to bend back enough just to get home. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
hal knight
a Cross Country Rider
from tuscaloosa, al, usa
Date Reviewed: May 31, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | velocity pro cycle | | Strengths: | can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | | Weaknesses: | it really does suck in every way. it is weak. it bends and folds at the greatest of ease. i thought bicycle wheels were supposed to last more than a couple of days. | | Similar Products Used: | soft shell taco | | Bike Setup: | 2002 cannondale bad boy on ritchey 26x1.0 slicks | | Bottom Line: | when i was 5 years old, my friend told me to stick a paper clip into an electric socket. deep down, i knew it was a bad idea. but i did it anyway. you know what happened next - i got shocked. and a bonus - it started a fire in my elementary school library - true story.
27 years later and i still haven't learned my lesson. i bought the weinmann after reading most of the reviews on this very site. i needed a quick fix. i was in a real bind. i thought, "i'll just be careful on these, until i can afford some better rims. I don't ride that hard anyway" Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Listen to me now, my friends. I bought this absolute piece of crap on a thursday. By monday, i had an abstract piece of art for a rear wheel. mangled rubber, metal and even some flesh - it was beautiful but useless. I only ride on sidewalks. I'm 32 years old with a deep respect for/fear of bodily injury. I don't ride hard, i ride safe.
trust me, DON'T buy a weinmann unless you're 62 years old, about to retire and think that 8mph is too fast. learn from my mistake. i hurt, so you don't have to. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lance Javriclec
a Downhiller
from n/a
Date Reviewed: March 18, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | LMAO! none, maybe, yah nvm none. | | Weaknesses: | Holy crap, where to begin, so many. the whole thing is a weakness. | | Similar Products Used: | none, this is the worst rim of all time. | | Bottom Line: | n/A | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt Alexander
a Weekend Warrior
from Clovis Ca.
Date Reviewed: March 6, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | off trail booney crashing!!!!!!!! and suburban assaults!!!! | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | local bike shop | | Strengths: | they are a cheap replacement for a quick fix if you are in a bind. as for any real product value , the weinmann 519 rims are worthless, pathetic at best. | | Weaknesses: | these rims are the worst. They never stay true and spokes break off and/or bend by practicaly just looking at em!
I had a rear rim fold like a taco in a matter of 1 month.
you cant even ride off a sidewalk curb with these rims.
I got 5 broken spokes and 2 bent ones. If you cant even hop or ride of a curb in a freakin mountain bike then we might as well be riding road bikes intead. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano stx rx 8s PARRALLAX and gary fischers on my other MTB - ( GARY FISCHER HOO KOO E KOO ) | | Bike Setup: | 2000 GIANT RINCON SE | | Bottom Line: | do not waste time and money with the weinmann 519 rims. they are garbage. matter fact you might as well drill a hole and mount a cassette and rear derailer onto a metal garbage can lid. it'll probably last longer. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Larry
a Cross Country Rider
from Wildwood N.J, USA
Date Reviewed: January 3, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$39.00 | | Purchased At: | E-Bay | | Strengths: | This is a grate rim for urbin riding. | | Weaknesses: | Not recomended for heavy trail use. | | Bike Setup: | Hardtail olsd school Giant | | Bottom Line: | I bought these rims to hold my mtb road slicks and cruse around town and the boardwalk. They have held true and are good for what I'm useing them for. I have Sunrims (big fat mammoth) with 2.5 michelins for cross country and single track. Use the right equiptment for the job and you won't encounter any problems. I wouldn't think of hoping curbs with any rim at 15 mph. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
sir eatsalot
a Weekend Warrior
from sierra vista
Date Reviewed: August 18, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | my backyar dirt track | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | bike shop | | Strengths: | absolutely none! | | Weaknesses: | evrything...but to sum it up,this thing is pathetic! | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | khs dj-100,upgraded marzocchi exr pro | | Bottom Line: | the first day i got these i went to the local park to try them out!i went to jump a curb and missed,so the entire wheel died...this rim didnt last 4 hours...now if u ask me i'd say...dont buy it...its horrible!omg...so im stuck with a messed up rim cuz the company wouldnt take it back...its so r3tarted=p | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David Waddell
a Cross Country Rider
from Colorado Springs
Date Reviewed: September 25, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | 60 | | Strengths: | Cheap, relatively strong | | Weaknesses: | Quality seems to be inconsistent | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic Cosmos | | Bike Setup: | Koja Miyata with 700c wheels touring bike (purchased abroad). | | Bottom Line: | I am a strong heavy rider and the bike is occasionally used for loaded touring. 95% of the time it is used for commuting. I have had two rear wheels with this rim. The first broke at the spoke insert area. It was also hard to true from the time it was purchased which makes me think it might have had a defect from the beginning. Did not hit anything that should have caused the rim to break. The second rim has stayed true. Currently having custom wheels with Mavic 719 rims and double-butted 14/15 spokes to replace this wheel as I don't want to have a rude surprise when commuting. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
William Spears
a Weekend Warrior
from Downey
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything without automobiles | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Jones Bike shop Long Beach | | Strengths: | inexpensive well finished | | Weaknesses: | inexpensive light duty rims | | Similar Products Used: | too many to count or remember clearly | | Bike Setup: | Haro Escape 7.0 | | Bottom Line: | These rims came with the bike. keeping in mind that rims on mountain bikes get thrashed harder and more often than just about anything else on a mountain bike, they have aquited themselves rather well. used crosscountry and very exetnsively for commuting they have been quite resonable, the rear wheel i just blasted into oblivion but the front is just fine still. My excuse to replace the rear with a Mavic crosside wheel. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jonathan Wee
a Weekend Warrior
from Perth, WA, Australia
Date Reviewed: January 25, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Came with the bike | | Strengths: | - Came with the bike so they are cheap I guess
- Easy and cheap to true at my LBS | | Weaknesses: | - Quite weak and easy to put out of true even for a recreational rider like me. | | Bottom Line: | Not crash hot but cheap and easy to even true yourself.
Soon I'll get Mavic XM321D rims for my front disc brakes. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
TJ
a Cross Country Rider
from Brunswick, ME
Date Reviewed: August 25, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | LL Bean | | Strengths: | Good rim for the Money | | Weaknesses: | Not very good for real extreme stuff, but its not designed for that, and the price doesnt either | | Similar Products Used: | Wally World Rims | | Bike Setup: | Wally world, with Shimano Alivio Parts | | Bottom Line: | These rims are great for light duty stuff, I have used them for trail riding, some urban freeride, (going down stairs, curbing, soem little drops) and I have done drosp with them (about 2 feet) and I have had no problems so far. Like some others said, if your gonna run into curb at 15mph and complain because something went wrong... I like the rim, still perfectly true but havent gotton any bad landings yet.
Another thing is, most rims will do fine, as long as you dont do stupid stuff like land on the right side of the bike, or run into curbing at 15mph. Just land right and enjoy | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nathan
a Racer
from SLC, Utah, USA
Date Reviewed: August 14, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Bobsled | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Um...They stay round, on occasion. Truing at my LBS is cheap... | | Weaknesses: | Weaker then a pair of Wal-Mart cheapo's, heavy, ugly. | | Similar Products Used: | Some Bontrager, Sun Rhyno Lites | | Bike Setup: | KHS Alite w/ XT and Formula hubs (Hubs also suck), soon to be getting Sun Rhyno Lites with LX hubs. | | Bottom Line: | These rims suck. Just plain suck. They don't feel solid on a trail, they're heavy, and butt ugly to boot. I don't do any freeride/DH/jumping, just XC racing, and these things seem to come out of true after any sort of trail ride. These rims might be good for cruising the local bike paths and streets, but for anything remotely involving dirt, go pick up a better set. My friend rode his Wal-Mart bike with me on a trail once, and his wheels came out of the ride true, while mine came out off about 5-10mm. I didn't wreck, and neither did he. These rims just suck. Get some new ones if you've currently got them. 1 flaming poop in each category, its not much value if it doesn't work. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
boo foo
a Weekend Warrior
from portland, oregon, usa
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Skibowl | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Gresham Bicycle | | Strengths: | Kicks assssss | | Weaknesses: | sucks ass | | Similar Products Used: | Matrix 550 rims | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Mamba with a new freewheel, rims, brakes, deraliures, and tires. | | Bottom Line: | These wheeles kick ass | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Eric W
a Weekend Warrior
from Pleasanton CA
Date Reviewed: June 2, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Any East Bay Park | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Works fine on a commuter bike. | | Weaknesses: | Brake track is a little narrow, making it harder to adjust your stoppers.
Needs more truing than usual until it breaks in, then it was stable for many years. | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic, 221, 519, Sun Rhyno-Lite, Rigida and Alex. | | Bike Setup: | Trek 820 with polished add ons to make it look good for trips to the coffee shop. | | Bottom Line: | These rims are not crap. I weigh 210lbs and these rims are fine on my "beater bike". I have about 3000 miles on them, and the bike and wheels are about 8 years old with no major problems.
My "beater bike" was my first mountain bike. I bought it about (1995) and it has been used (in the past) to jump curbs and do small drops.
I'm not saying the 519 is a competition rim (it won't hold up like a Mavic F519 or Sun Rhyno-Lite), but it is not a total piece of doo-doo like some people are saying either.
I've used some pretty decent rims over the years, and the key to longevity is keeping the spoke tension even and not too loose, or too tight.
Your drive side spokes on the rear and all the spokes on the front should sound "musical" when plucked. If they sound flat they are too tight, or too loose
(could be either.)
This talk of spoke tension brings up another point. The biggest problem these 519s have, is that they are almost allways built with cheap no-name spokes, thats one of the reasons why they get out of true so easily until they "break in." Cheap spokes stretch unevenly, leading to more initial truing and a longer break-in time.
I would recommend these rims to someone that wants a good rim for a commuter, cruiser, or light duty mountain bike.
I would not recomend these rims to someone that is doing Dual-Slalom, Free-Riding Down-hill or anything else that involves a lot of "big air."
I'm going to give them a four chili rating for their performance in the intended applications and because some Rigida entry leval rims I once had, were a little bit better.
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Submitted by
Tom Binet
a Weekend Warrior
from Boulder, Colorado
Date Reviewed: January 17, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Mathews Winters | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$65.00 | | Purchased At: | Full Cycle | | Strengths: | Strong. I want another. | | Weaknesses: | It is bent, but only about 1 millimeter. And that's after a four foot drop and a bunch of abuse. | | Similar Products Used: | None. | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Rockhopper Comp, Marzocchi Z1 Freeride QR20, Race Face BB, cranks and rings. Shimano XT Der.s. | | Bottom Line: | I keep reading all of these terrible things about my 519 rim but haven't experienced any problems, and I have the 32 hole version (as opposed to the 36). I will likely buy another for the back when I get the money.
I guess everyone has their own experiences, and who is to say that Mavic's quality control is top notch. I wouldn't know, but I like my 519. But it will only get 4 chili's as it is a teenie bit bent. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben
a Weekend Warrior
from Whakatane New Zealand
Date Reviewed: December 15, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Redwoods in Rotorua NZ | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | With Avanti Lightning | | Strengths: | Easily bent back to shape, Okay for Kerb hopping I guess, Lasted quite well till my bike got hit by a nissan safari. | | Weaknesses: | Trueing req'd a heap, Love collecting brake dust | | Similar Products Used: | Araya VP20 Mavic x221 | | Bike Setup: | 1998 Avanti Lightning with specialized team master comp series tyre on the rear. standard prtty much | | Bottom Line: | Cheap and nasty if ur goin to get serious. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve Scimone
a Downhiller
from San Diego, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: November 4, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Fire roads in Cuyamaca | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | Chula Vista Schwinn - Cycling & Fitness | | Strengths: | Dissipates Brake Heat Quickly, Light, Durable | | Weaknesses: | None so far | | Similar Products Used: | Standard Steel Rims | | Bike Setup: | Home Built, 5spd SIS, Shimano V-brakes, GT cranks had it for 3 years. | | Bottom Line: | Never need truing if you're careful. I haven't had mine trued yet and they are still straight as needles. This is a pretty good rim considering that i'm 300 pounds and I ride ROUGH downhills. Consider this rim for all-purpose riding. It is a good rim for how much it cost and I haven't even broken a spoke. Burned my brakes a few times on it as well. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve
a Weekend Warrior
from Brisbane, Australia
Date Reviewed: October 31, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Bike Setup: | Avanti montari w. LX front and rear, veulta seat, specialized tyres | | Bottom Line: | These rims are very bad. They need trueing if I look at them funny. Every time I ride they are out of whack after about an hour of relatively easy stuff. Snakebite punchers are also a real problem. Maybe I got unlucky but I'll be upgrading as soon as possible. Don't buy!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
rob
a Cross Country Rider
from leicester, england
Date Reviewed: October 2, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | none | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came stock wiv bike | | Strengths: | cheap, fairly light | | Weaknesses: | Fat bullish machismo high school jocks who give products a bad name by saying things like... "these wheels are crap man!! ... Im 6'4 and weigh like 242 pounds, I ride hard! and do 70ft drops and these wheels only lasted 2 months!" - HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU READ THAT ----- p a t h e t i c! | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | 3 tube easton elite 7005 series heat treated aluminium hardtail. STX / deore lx / sugino - drivetrain. Avid 2.0
brakes, Panracer smoke, Z5 bomber sussers. | | Bottom Line: | respoke them every 3 years and they should be fine. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
'D'
a Weekend Warrior
from Omaha, NE, USA
Date Reviewed: September 29, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything fast and jumpy | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | local bike shop | | Strengths: | Look nice on the bike. Mostly made for soft, straight rides. | | Weaknesses: | Don't hold together under stress. | | Bike Setup: | stock Giant Iguana SE | | Bottom Line: | For the past couple years I've ridden all types of paved and offroad trails: beginners, intermed, semi-extreme. I'm about 6'2' 180lbs and I like to do a lot of jumping, bunnyhopping. This was the first decent bike I bought and didn't know much about rims at the time. Like I said, they came stock on my Iguana.
They seem to stay relatively round as long as you ride on soft ground and keep the bike straight when you land. If I were you I wouldn't hit any obstacles at over 5-10mph though.
I didn't realize exactly how weak the rims really were until one day I was riding on the roads in my neighborhood on the way to the trails when I decided to B-hop over a sewer drain. I came down with the back-end slightly tweaked (I'm talking only about 3-6 inches) while riding about 5-10 mph and bent the rim.
It's really a shame when you can't make use of a sturdy MTB because the rims crumble with the slightest load.
I suppose if you can ride soft and straight you can make these rims last longer than a few weeks. However if you have even the slightest bit of aggession in you, you'll be sorry.
Honestly, I've ridden Huffy's that can take more than these could. Overall I guess if your idea of a fun time involves carrying your bike home on the side of the street while people drive by throwing crap at you all-the-while mocking your manhood, then these are definitely what you need. Otherwise look elsewhere.
After all, the more torture your bike can handle, the quicker you'll improve your skills.
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Submitted by
Robert Thompson
a Cross Country Rider
from Leicester / UK
Date Reviewed: September 25, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | wants to go to Iceland | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came wif bike | | Strengths: | value for money, not oversized like some other xc rims | | Weaknesses: | not the lightest and the alloy tarnishes easy | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | Viper f-40 elite frame (www.woollyhatshop.com), wieniemen 512 rims, Panracer smoke, avid sd 2.0 brakes, shimano stx groupset, Bomber Z4's | | Bottom Line: | I read below about dirt and stunt riders rambling on about how weak and crap these are! they are not crap, if you want to do heavy dropoffs and stunts then get yourself some heavy duty trials rims, these are for xc duhhhhhhhh!.
Anyway....Im failry average in height (5"9) and weight (70kg) and ive had these on my bike for over 3 years, i feel no flex and they have been trouble free and expect they will last me for years to come. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rick Onanian
a Cross Country Rider
from East Greenwich, RI USA
Date Reviewed: September 11, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Big River Management Area | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Came with GT Outpost @ LBS | | Strengths: | Cheap, has held up to my beating for 3 or 4 years. Tough.
Some others say it's lightweight? | | Weaknesses: | I've always ridden them slightly out of true...
Some others say it's heavy? | | Similar Products Used: | No other mountain bike rims...Mavic CXP-21s on my new road bike. | | Bike Setup: | 1999 GT Outpost, RST Capa TL, Thudbuster seatpost [sometimes], 190-210 pound human | | Bottom Line: | I think that the labor put into building them must be much more important than the material quality. Furher, I think different people tolerate different qualities differently.
Everybody says these rims are awful. I haven't experienced that. I weigh 190 right now, but did weigh 210 when I started. I ride hard, ungracefully, on terrain full of rocks from 1" to 6", roots of all sizes, and logs that have broken chainrings and seatposts. I've had my share of accidents, endoed enough. I'm scared of large dropoffs, but have done dropoffs as large as maybe 16"...and never had my rims taco.
One was bent to crap when it got smooshed between my car and a car that rear-ended me with the bike on a trunk-mounted bike rack. It got replaced with another one that has lasted well.
My wheels have always been slightly out of true, but I have my brakes adjusted tighter than everybody else I meet, I stop well, and my wheels rub _slightly_ once per revolution. This doesn't slow them down, but it does get noisy after I ride through mud.
I'm giving them 5 flaming piles of entrails for treating me so well when everybody rates them so badly (my LBS told me they'd be fine, and my LBS was right!). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matthew
a Racer
from Commack, NY
Date Reviewed: September 1, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Seem to be holding up fine | | Weaknesses: | None noticed | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | 1998 Trek 720, Mostly stock. Nasbar saddle, bar ends | | Bottom Line: | I am not a trail rider but I do do 30-40 miles a week street riding and after 1300 miles on my buke, these rims are as true as the day I got the bike. Even after assorted potholes, curbs, etc, no problem.
Can't tell you about off road though..... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt
a Weekend Warrior
from New Zealand
Date Reviewed: August 12, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Ashiya singletrack | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | came with Haro | | Strengths: | Roughly circular for first month or so. Not too bad looking (black). They rolled like wheels. | | Weaknesses: | Weak weak weak weak, and, did I mention, WEAK? they don't stay true for long. I spent long periods of time trying to stop my brakes from rubbing the rims (first one side, then the other, and so on). Can't take the punishment they deserve. Spokes: weak weak weak. Wouldn't recommend them to anyone really. Did I mention punctures? | | Similar Products Used: | same old stuff, nothing special | | Bike Setup: | Haro ICS2.0 with Azonic double wall riser bar. | | Bottom Line: | I just can't think of anything good about these wheels. Bend and puncture like it's going out of fashion. Sad little things. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Shane Gouldthread
a Racer
from Weedville,PA,USA
Date Reviewed: July 9, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | fawnskin,cluandite,resivor | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | libys bike shop | | Strengths: | strong, held up good... | | Weaknesses: | they dont stay true at first but after while they will, they did for me. | | Similar Products Used: | suns mavics | | Bike Setup: | trek manitou,all XT... | | Bottom Line: | i ride alot n i mean not u guys who think 10-15 miles is long... i mean lik 25-50miles. i ride my but off. this yr i am racin. i have put these wheels through alot. i had to straighten um after 2 rides but we did som hard ridin on them. but after we trued them they worked awsome. but after my last ride in new york when i did n endo on a ski slope when it was rainin lost my traction n stprained colerone but batter scares. its shot now it was tacoed pretty good now im goin to buy a mavic 519 set. but they did good...
lata | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott
a Racer
from Falmouth, MA
Date Reviewed: June 12, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$4.00 | | Strengths: | i think they are $4 wholesale | | Weaknesses: | everything, this is the most wrecked wheel i see. they can not stand up to any sideways impacts. | | Similar Products Used: | almost everything | | Bike Setup: | tomac 98 special, sram XO, hugi 240 disc hubs, ds-xc1 rims, avid discs | | Bottom Line: | junk junk junk i can buy these rims for about $4 so they probably cost less than 50 cents to make. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Adam
a Cross Country Rider
from the flatest state, IN
Date Reviewed: April 16, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | good rim for hitting bumps and such head on. | | Weaknesses: | I came off of a jump and landed a bit sideways. The rear rim is bent pretty bad now. | | Bottom Line: | As long as you don't go nuts riding, it is a good rim. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John N
a Cross Country Rider
from College Station, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: April 15, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Lake Bryan | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | came with the bike | | Strengths: | great for the price, you get what you pay for! | | Weaknesses: | weight, quality, and the hub that usually comes with it | | Similar Products Used: | i don't know of anything else that cheap | | Bike Setup: | 2000 specialized hardrock, converted to xt, rockshox, and now Sun 0 degree lite rims! w/ xt hubs | | Bottom Line: | Weinmann rims are okay for beginners, but once you decide to hit the trails their true quality comes out and leaves you carrying a bike. If you are looking to hit the trails I would advise you to learn about the rims you are about to buy. And have them hand built, it costs more but you can tell the difference. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
James Bedard
a Downhiller
from Kanata, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: February 17, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | don't care | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | kunstadt | | Strengths: | none, they work for two months | | Weaknesses: | my front one bent into a 's' after tapping a curb when i wasn't looking where i was going! my back one snapped in two when i went from one parking lot to another over a median no more than 8 inches of a difference! They bend easily. Every ride i had to true them at least for 20 mins! | | Similar Products Used: | none they suck! | | Bike Setup: | GT Ricochet suped up though with psylo sl 2001 rhyno lites now, hayes discs, and yeah LX drivetrain | | Bottom Line: | Do not buy these, unless they come on a bike for a real good price then you can just switch 'em...when you buy the bike get the shop to switch these tires to Rhyno lites! 2 chilis for price cuz they're cheap and two flamin' chilis because they are rims that can be used to bike to the store just don't hit any curbs on the way! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Brett
a Weekend Warrior
from Lithgow, NSW, Australia
Date Reviewed: November 7, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Light | | Weaknesses: | Light, very weak, not round anymore | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | Was a stock 2001 Avanti Ventura | | Bottom Line: | I stuffed my rear rim travelling at WALKING pace on a short downhill section of a fire trail. I was very surprised to see my rear rim buckle so much (about a 100mm 'wobble') from just riding slowly through a 150mm deep erosion rut...even had my butt off the seat! (I'm 6'1" 195lbs) These rims are OK for road riding, but for offroad they are easily destroyed. I lost confidence in these rims so I replaced the front rim as well. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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