anyone own them? i can get a good deal on a pair but don't know much about them as far as how they hold up.
1. I9 sends extra spokes with their wheels.go with kings and regular ss spokes. i've heard good things about i9's, but the spokes can break just like any other wheel, leaving you up shlt creek without a paddle for a week or however long it takes to get a new spoke from them. you'll have the kings for the rest of your life
Same on the Opium. I wasn't comfortable with the lockring BARELY holding the cassette on so I made it an 8 speed setup.- when using a 9 speed XT casette, 4 spacer rings (included with wheels) need to be used to prevent the casette touching the hub body (which blocks the freewheel). This results in a less then favorable thread engagement on the casette lockring. No problems so far, but I'm being super carefull...
diggity!well i pulled the trigger and got a set of I9's on ebay for what i think is a good deal, and they are the classic set so they take normal spokes. now i need some hoops, spokes etc and someone to build them
yeah, i'm looking forward to getting them. and a friend of mine will build them for me as soon as i get all the parts together. anyone know of a good place to get spokes and alloy nips? i prefer DT for the spokes, not sure on the nipplesdiggity!
don't factory wheels usually come with alloy nipples? basically i'm going for a look. blue hubs and nips with black spokes and hoops. the bike will be black and blue.Looks like you can get spokes off of universalcycles.com without having to buy a whole box. I'm not sure the price is much different than you'd get at the LBS, though.
Sure you want to go with alloy nipples? If you don't care about the weight so much and are worried about durability, then why not brass? They will hold up to more truing and are less likely to break. It could be the fact that the wheelset is just old, but I've been getting a good amount of alloy nipples breaking on my xc wheels. I think one or two broke on my road set as well, which is pretty new. I'm only 165 and would go brass if given the choice.
Eh, depends. Totally variable depending on the wheels.don't factory wheels usually come with alloy nipples? basically i'm going for a look. blue hubs and nips with black spokes and hoops. the bike will be black and blue.