29r Carbon Wheelset recommendations

MtnRider

MtnRider

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Looking at upgrading my wheelset for the coming race season and wanted to see what experiences others have had and what recommend,

Lots of options and a wide range of prices - looking at Crank Bros Cobalt 11, Enve (cha-ching), Reynolds & Easton.

Also recall someone posting about Chinese made set?

Feedback - thoughts - somewhere offering discounts?
 
MtnRider,

No MTB experience, but I have Reynolds carbons (Assaults) on my road bike. I'm over 200lbs 😱 and have ridden these as my everyday wheels for over 3K miles and never touched them. Still as true as when I got them.

Tim
 
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I've been on the wide 29er rims for a year. Beat em up.... still good as new. I think a lot of that is attributed to Jim doing a good job building them... but he was impressed with them as well.

They seal up tubeless no problems.

For the price... No brainer.
 
I also have an LB set for two seasons now. No complaints about them. I did crack my first rear rim at the KVSP race in 2012 when I slammed the rim on a rock after I punctured my tire. But it was just a small crack...I actually put some epoxy on it and finished out the 2012 race season on it without issue. Then LB sent me a replacement for $40, so I cant complain. I might have gone with one of the sets from easton, reynolds, etc...But in my case, my scalpel needed a lefty front hub and a 142x12 rear hub and nobody offered a set like that at the time. Maybe they do now? Only other options was Enves and that was way way out of my price range. They have taken quite a beating.
 
Thanks guys - definetely hard to beat their prices.

Which hubs are you using?

Anything else I should be asking for when ordering?
 
MtnRider said:
Thanks guys - definetely hard to beat their prices.

Which hubs are you using?

Anything else I should be asking for when ordering?
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I have a standard lefty front and a DT swiss 240 rear.

I cant remember anything specific about ordering, I just remember I ordered the XC rather than the AM rims
 
did anyone try any of the rims they have for rim brakes (road). I could trust these rims with dick brakes, but rim brakes seems alittle sketchy.
 
stb222 said:
did anyone try any of the rims they have for rim brakes (road). I could trust these rims with dick brakes, but rim brakes seems alittle sketchy.
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Road bike review has a thread. I don't think anyone reported any issues. But carbon clinchers on the road creep me out. By any brand.
I would do a tubular set for racing, but road racing is for psychopaths.
 
Yeah there are about 1000 pages of testimony on chinese crabon fibre road rims. A lot of people say exactly what Jeremy says about chinese carbon clinchers but you just don't hear about many catastrophic failures. Still, I won't ride them, partially because I don't want to take the chance but also I think carbon road clinchers are silly. Carbon tubular or aluminum clincher or aluminum tubular for that matter.

I've built a number of chinese carbon tubular wheels and the braking is on par with my HEDs and Reynolds. For a shade tree wheel builder they are super easy to work with compared to a lightweight alu rim because they are so stiff. Some are better than others but there almost always seems to be some pulsing though not any worse than some aluminum rims I've used.
 
jShort said:
Road bike review has a thread. I don't think anyone reported any issues. But carbon clinchers on the road creep me out. By any brand.
I would do a tubular set for racing, but road racing is for psychopaths.
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Yeah, I was looking at carbon clinchers a few years ago and after reading some of the downsides, it didn't make sense to pay two to three times as much for a wheel set that may not be as durable in the long run.
 
29 carbon

Have u checked out Industry Nine Torch Trail? They make gorgeous wheels in NC. You can get them in carbon. Sick. 🙂
 
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