I did that to a Hadley rear hub, but mine cracked down in to the body too.
I had a bunch of broken spokes and was trying to kill the rim but the hub went first, made quite a bang.
What have you broken on your bike recently?
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I had a bunch of broken spokes and was trying to kill the rim but the hub went first, made quite a bang.
Somehow managed to suck a rock up into the drivetrain within about 100 yards of the 1st descent and it sheared the derailleur at the knuckle. Of course it flew into the wheel and ate an $8 spoke. What was crazy is that it didn't damage the breakaway syntace hanger.
Tried to single speed it with no sustainable success, so made a friend pull me up the climb with a tire tube strap.
Good times.
Tried to single speed it with no sustainable success, so made a friend pull me up the climb with a tire tube strap.
Good times.
wtf spokes are you using that are 8 bucks a pop?
I9 aluminum spokes.
Because its a strong sized wheel, its been a little hard to source. Thought I found a spare, but its an old one so the (fucking) thread pitch is different. They're a god damned pain in the ass to replace, but I do believe it makes for a better overall wheel. And overall they've actually been tougher than any j-bend spoke I've used in the past.
wilsons or pisgah proper?
I may just give them a try…
New loamer trail off Trace Ridge. Its fun, even without a functioning drive train.
Recently witnessed a dude tow his 6 year old son to the top of a 1500 ft climb. Not only is that badass but even the easiest way down was bloody impressive for a 6 year old from both a technical and endurance perspective.
Can confirm.
Snapped one in my wheelset for the first time a couple of weeks ago, having to redo tubeless tape just to replace a spoke is a pain in the balls.
To be fair, that can be the case on normal j-bend spokes. In fact, the last 2 spokes I've broken have had the spoke shear midway through the nipple, so relacing meant stripping the tape and replacing the nipple with the spoke.
Just poke a hole in the tape where you need it and repair with a small square of duck tape.
What about gorilla tape?
The costs to get it removed later will probably negate the initial time savings.
If it only touches the regular tubeless tape there will be no need to curate an authentic local artisanal Mexican child to remove it.
And missing out on all the fun.
Agree about Westy's suggestion on poking a hole in the tape, as that's worked for me as well. But when I used gorilla tape, the sealant seemed to dissolve the tape's adhesive over time. I've patched it with regular rim tape and some other space tape that I have which has worked.
Ultimately, I need to find some old school mag wheels and ditch this spoke non-sense.
Sorry grampa, those were thermoplastic, not mag
These are the ones you were looking for:
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as if you had the coin
Who needs coin when I have NFTs?6 Speichen Carbon Laufrad für Plus Reifen E-MTB und Mountainbike BITURBO XE - bike ahead composites
extrem stabiler Carbon Laufradsatz Seitensteifigkeit Plus Reifen Montage Wide Trail Vorteile E-MTB E-Bike Mountainbike
as if you had the coin
That reminds me, I've always wanted to try Veloplugs so I might order some to see if they actually work.
Tenacious Tape might work for a hole in the rim tape, it doesn't leave goo behind like GT.
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My LBS gives me these rubbery tubeless strips that come on the bikes from Specialized. I don't bother taping rims anymore. Side benefit of being harder to burp a tire once the strip bonds to your tire bead.
The selling point of I9 rear wheels to me are how stiff the alloy spoke versions are under pedaling loads. I don't give a shit about the POE.
Wow, one frame cracked in three places, that's impressive!
If your bike company's name starts with a "C" the likelihood your frames "c"rack are higher: Commencal, Cannondale, Cube, Canyon...
He's really kicked off about them.
Main pivot bearings after riding through a record breaking wet summer here in QLD, plus a week of pressure washing mud off the bike in Europe. Replaced with some nice NSK units and overfilled them with grease for extra water resistance.
Yesterday's ride was a shitshow. First lap - one guy separated shoulder. Second lap - another guy riding brand new bike taco'ed an e.13 LG1 rim in a flat turn so bad it wouldn't spin in the frame (the third one of those rims I've seen failed JRA). Third lap - a guy crashes and gouges a stanchion. Ride back to the top and find this guy attempting to finish his run back to the car with this as his brake lever after a crash.
If you mean the carbon ones. Those are the only carbon rims I've ever seen taco with absolutely no visible damage to the surface. I didn't even know carbon could be bent out of shape like that without some sort off visible damage ie. splintered, cracked, chipped, dented etc.
The Alloy ones aren't much better. And it really doesn't help when the full wheelsets (mainly found OEM on enduro/trail bikes) are a 28 spoke count with alloy nipples and stupidly thin (E13 *sigh*) spokes.
I hate E13 parts with a passion. and far from shy about the fact.