kgt wrote:... "sourced asian/chinese rims"
Many have had good success with some chinese/asian wheels, Farsports etc...
I also have a set of 40mm clinchers, built the same time, the rear that is, once by Alchemy. So the rear wheel was built/rebuilt when Alchemy ORC was recalled. Those rims have no issues, I looked at them real close.
Just the 56mm tubular Chinese rims have issues. They were built with Tune 70/170 hubs. Which is even more frustrating, apparently the rim/spoke bed is flawed with their layup/process, or the tension was run up too high, but it was well within specs the CXRay spokes...so just assume it is crappy rims, because they claimed a pretty high pf on the spoken tension the rims could handle. But obviously, not the case!
So yeah, a $1200 set of wheels custom built, which weighed 1280gms for 56mm deep tubulars, great for 2yrs. Now, worthless. Hubs are still perfect. So I got $500+ hubs that are good to go!!
Either just selling the hubs outright, and buying brand name set of wheels, or getting some quality name rims, and having them built with my hubs...either way, done with the Asian wheels for sure, particularly the Chinese ones.