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- Balanced spoke pattern for increased lateral stiffness
- Scandium alloy rim
- Reinforced at spoke holes
- Ultra thin wall extrusion
- New quicker engagement freehub body
- Center Lock rotor mount system
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Submitted by
duncan giblin
a Weekend Warrior
from australia
Date Reviewed: April 21, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | kellevie 24 hour course tasmania | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$800.00 | | Purchased At: | appleby cycles | | Strengths: | light as sin, stay very tru even after a pasting.very stiff infact magnifcent for cornering hard and very agile.
takes a tubless tire really well trail inflation with small pump not a problem.
| | Weaknesses: | rear hub.
rear hub axel body broke clean through will on a trail ride. i weigh 85kg and ride a HT fairly hard. maged to ride out on the skewer. i am also developing concerns about the free hub skipping allthough happend on same ride so ill see when i rebuilt the hub with new axel.
| | Similar Products Used: | mavic 717s, 317s, on mixture of hubs including hope, xt, maveric, dabomb and magura | | Bike Setup: | orbea, xt, xtr, black spire c/rings race face evolve c/set running endura bearings | | Bottom Line: | great but you may have to replace rear axel body if your ride agressive xc. cost of replacement is $60 Au$ so no biggy. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve McCaughan
a Cross Country Rider
from NZ
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$500.00 | | Purchased At: | Chain Reaction cycles | | Strengths: | Light, Stiff, rolls well. | | Weaknesses: | None so far | | Similar Products Used: | Have a set of Crossmax SL 08 and DT Swiss factory wheelset. | | Bike Setup: | Ti Motolite all XTR except XT brakes and shifters they are better! | | Bottom Line: | Very impressed so far!
I only ride with nice wheelsets and these are good.
Stiffer than Crossmax on front, roll better and smoother,(early days though).
High quality and well made.
I also prefer the feel on the trail while riding from XTR.
Crossmax feel a little dead at times but they are bullet proof!
I will post review after a few thousand kms to see how XTR hold up. Only nervousness is the freehub. I have the updated freehub so hopefully none of the problems of the earlier sets. Best value by far from chainreactioncycles.com at $550 US of any wheelset out there!
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Submitted by
tim yao
a Cross Country Rider
from China
Date Reviewed: December 27, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$700.00 | | Purchased At: | starbike | | Strengths: | light, smooth quiet hubs, stiff | | Weaknesses: | none | | Bike Setup: | Scale with THM crankset, Pace fork, Sram shifters | | Bottom Line: | hi-end product, highly recommended, affordable price with VAT deducted from Deutschland. When i bought them, Euro was lower, price now is higher. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom
a Racer
from Grasse, France
Date Reviewed: September 12, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | North Fork Umpqua | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Light, "native" tubeless, stiff for light wheels | | Weaknesses: | Durability not up to XTR standards. Thin-walled aluminum rear axle. | | Similar Products Used: | handbuilt XTR hubs w/ Bontrager rims | | Bike Setup: | Flux | | Bottom Line: | With less than 70 hours use, no air time, no abuse, no gnarly trails ... I broke the rear axle in half and broke 3 spokes on the front wheel. The spokes all broke under braking forces during descents. The rear axle appeared to be a cumulative fatigue fracture at the thread on the inside edge of the drive side cone. I've always found Shimano hubs to be among the most reliable in the industry, and its one reason I picked this wheelset over Mavic when shopping for UST racing wheels. I'm 190 lbs. so no lightweight, but not exactly a Clydesdale riding drops on these things. But now I'm stuck with a set of wheels which I can't even confidently race on. I also recently built up a wheelset on the 2008 XT hubs, which appear to use the same aluminum rear axle, so now I regret using those hubs and I'm worried I'll break the axle in a few months. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Barry
a Cross Country Rider
from Vancouver
Date Reviewed: August 18, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Jack's Trail | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1200.00 | | Purchased At: | Different Bikes | | Strengths: | Light, stiff, accelerates like mad, red nipples | | Weaknesses: | Freehub is prone to skipping with popping and crunching noises, and that goes for the warranty replacement freehub too. | | Similar Products Used: | Mavic Crossmax, XTR 960/Mavic custom build wheels, XT hubs/Mavic rims, Hope XC hubs/Mavic rims | | Bike Setup: | Rocky Mountain Vertex, XTR and SRAM X-0 drivetrain | | Bottom Line: | The wheels are incredibly stiff laterally for a wheelset under 1600gms, they accelerate like there's rockets in them.
After a couple of weeks of use the freehub started skipping after a brief bit of coasting over rough ground or after a slight back pedal. The first freehub would mostly just make the popping noise with no significant feedback at the pedals. The replacement freehub skips about 1/8 of a crank rotation when it makes the popping crunching noise. If you move the cassette/freehub by hand you can feel the point where the pawl just misses the rachet teeth and skips a tooth or two. So far it hasn't skipped under high loads like climbs, just after coasting or backpedaling.
Having run the XTR 960 hubs for almost 3 years with no hiccups of any sort in the freehub, it's disappointing to have problems with a new XTR wheelset this pricey.
According to the exploded parts diagram the freehub is the same on standard 970 series XTR hubs, it'd be interesting to know if anyone has seen similar problems in the freehub.
If the freehub was as dead reliable as my old XTR 960 hubs it would have been 5x5 review, but it gets a 3x4 instead.
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Submitted by
FOES 2007 FXR
a Cross Country Rider
from Pasadena
Date Reviewed: December 3, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | El Prieto/Brown Mountain | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1000.00 | | Purchased At: | Mike RIchard at rbikes.com (Richards Bicycles) | | Strengths: | Lightweight, balanced and best of all it's XTR!!! | | Weaknesses: | None that I have encountered | | Similar Products Used: | All types of Mavic, Bontrager etc. | | Bike Setup: | 2007 Foes FXR Large with all 2007 XTR components | | Bottom Line: | This wheelset is phenomenal. Buy the set and don't look back. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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