broke another spoke while trying to true the shitty newmen front wheel. ordered the new turbine wheel. no more newmen products
How many newmen have you tried?
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What have you broken on your bike recently?
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How many newmen have you tried?
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Yep that ended up being the shrink wrap pieces had made their way to the top (?!) of the spring. I turned them back down into place and shunk them again with heat and the fork is back to its silentness.
I thought the internet loved Newmen stuff?broke another spoke while trying to true the shitty newmen front wheel. ordered the new turbine wheel. no more newmen products
Their stems are great and super light.
Turbine...Race Face.... Their other rims are made of cheese.broke another spoke while trying to true the shitty newmen front wheel. ordered the new turbine wheel. no more newmen products
Why are you not getting DT Swiss? Buy once, be happy.
he broke one or two spokes and is now buying a complete new wheel
everything is working perfectly
Duhbroke another spoke while trying to true the shitty newmen front wheel. ordered the new turbine wheel. no more newmen products
nothings available, neither ex 1700 nor fr 1500. only after the season again
reserve wheels couldn’t even tell me a delivery date
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rim is bend too after riding in paganella for a day with one spoke less
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4th Ride on the wheels and destroyed the Raceface ARC30 that came stock on the bike today. 
I was running 25psi with a Vee Attack HPL and a cushcore pro, but a 2ft drop onto a small stump at 20km's was apparently too much.
flat spotted the rim, buckled both sidewalls and (WTF!!!) put a dent into the middle of the channel in the rim bed...... at low speed/small drop with a cushcore pro.
Ah well, once I got back out of the Rotorua forest I dropped into see the guys at Wideopen to say hi as I'd not seen them since I sold the shop, and thankfully they sorted me out with new rim, Stans beefiest rim.... Love Wideopen they rock!
I'll have to build it up when I get home, going to be too busy up here with work to do anything until I return to Wellington.
I was running 25psi with a Vee Attack HPL and a cushcore pro, but a 2ft drop onto a small stump at 20km's was apparently too much.
flat spotted the rim, buckled both sidewalls and (WTF!!!) put a dent into the middle of the channel in the rim bed...... at low speed/small drop with a cushcore pro.
Ah well, once I got back out of the Rotorua forest I dropped into see the guys at Wideopen to say hi as I'd not seen them since I sold the shop, and thankfully they sorted me out with new rim, Stans beefiest rim.... Love Wideopen they rock!
I'll have to build it up when I get home, going to be too busy up here with work to do anything until I return to Wellington.
Same same. I went through a few Raceface rims and gave up. The rimbeads would fold over like tacos and would flatspot.4th Ride on the wheels and destroyed the Raceface ARC30 that came stock on the bike today.
I was running 25psi with a Vee Attack HPL and a cushcore pro, but a 2ft drop onto a small stump at 20km's was apparently too much.
flat spotted the rim, buckled both sidewalls and (WTF!!!) put a dent into the middle of the channel in the rim bed...... at low speed/small drop with a cushcore pro.
Ah well, once I got back out of the Rotorua forest I dropped into see the guys at Wideopen to say hi as I'd not seen them since I sold the shop, and thankfully they sorted me out with new rim, Stans beefiest rim.... Love Wideopen they rock!
I'll have to build it up when I get home, going to be too busy up here with work to do anything until I return to Wellington.
Switched to a Tairen rim after those and it took the abuse, had gouges from a few rocks but never folded a bead over or dented. It did develop a wobble big enough to not be fixable though.
Now on DT Swiss EX511's and realize I should have just got these all a long. Its only been one summer so far, but its still straight and no dents. Thats after a trip to BC and one to Bromont, where I hit a rock hard enough to blow 3 holes in it.
I borked my front rim recently and have an EX511 with 350 hub on the way as a replacement...
Pretty sure for alloy rims nothing really comes close to the DTs. Next time I build a wheel it would take a lot to convince me to go with anything else for the rim.
Putting carbon aside, for whatever reason, it is hard to choose something else than DT. I have tried Newmen something sl 25 on my trail bike with 28 light gauge spokes. I haven't dent them but I needed to retension the rear wheel too often for my liking. Maybe more sturdier spokes would have helped?
Now I have the same build as on my park bike: ex471 and 32 spokes.
I don't feel like I need wider rims maybe because I don't use so wide tyre? I stay at 2.4 with 27.5 psi for my 75 to 80 kg
Yeah, I'm puzzling right now with what to substitute them. Leaning into DT XM421 or 481 for the front wheel. I weigh even less and ran 1.7 bar in the Forecaster in the pic, but also only 28 spokes and these BS rims obviously were a bit on the soft side.
I run an xm481 at the front on my park bike.
it might be on the light side and it might not hold very long...On the trail bike I have a fancy Duke something with offset drilling as a front rim and little less than 30mm internal width. Same here, never more than 2.4 tire and 21 or 22 psi, that's 1.5bar. I don't know why but psi for tire pressure is more natural for me than bar. I don't know why!
Those are crabon rims, aren't they? Buddy has them on his Tallboy me thinks. But he is using it as a XC or marathon bike. I'm not sure they will withstand my abuse
Nope, aluminium
DUKE Crazy Star 6TERS Front Rim 29"
French people on that forum I read seem to like them. But Duke is a french brand so they might be biased
Check some German/Austrian forum before committing would be my advice.
crabon.
......or a real rim?
Does RF still offer a lifetime warranty?4th Ride on the wheels and destroyed the Raceface ARC30 that came stock on the bike today.
Not in NZ, and as mentioned above, that would be a waste of a wheel build.
Also while I'm not a bike shop owner anymore with concerns about my reputation. I still refuse to sell useless shit to people.
Probably why I sucked at making mega bucks as a business owner, ethics kept getting in my way.
i find their atlas pedals to be the best things i've tried since my original kona wah wahs. and can't complain about my atlas stem either. but that's all i use from them. well, i did happily run sixc crabon bars for years too until kidwoo convinced me i was going to die...
already lost 1/3 of the pins of my atlas pedals i bought in july and a good chunk of the body. they can’t handle swissroxx
Preloaded so much it spat me right over the corner and into the roxx beyond. Pretty battered and bruised atm.