50mm Carbon Clinchers...500 mile review pg. 7
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My experience has been so bad about these rims from Farsports, maybe you guys have good experiences now, but then you will find "something interesting" after long ride. The first time i bought and built the superlight rims from Farsports, my target drive side tension was 120 kgf, I follow my standard procedure of stress relieving by squeezing parallel spokes with my hands. That's when I heard the rim creak. Not until the wheel was done did I see a crack at the nipple hole and several other bulging.
Good day,
I am thinking to buy some pair of these.
50 mm clinchers, hubsmith hubs with ceramic bearings, thinking matt 3k or matt ud, what you people think, ud or 3k?
And then you bought wheels, what was the tension of spokes, it was good? I mean, do you need to do anything then they arive?
I am thinking to buy some pair of these.
50 mm clinchers, hubsmith hubs with ceramic bearings, thinking matt 3k or matt ud, what you people think, ud or 3k?
And then you bought wheels, what was the tension of spokes, it was good? I mean, do you need to do anything then they arive?
I am the unlucky guy as well, but it's not for spoke tension, it's for brake tracks(chipping after hard brakes). And here i have to talk about the price when i work with Justin recently, i guess he is a shareholder in farsports or other companies before, and now he has his own company named focus-carbon, so i think both of their rims are the same, but Justin quoted me less than US$400 for both tubular and clincher wheels, the only difference is that justin build the wheels with powerway hubs and pillar spokes, it's a little heavier than hubsmith, maybe 50g, but i don't think 50g is worth at least US$200, that's why more and more chinese guys are rich now, lol...
absmith wrote:My experience has been so bad about these rims from Farsports, maybe you guys have good experiences now, but then you will find "something interesting" after long ride. The first time i bought and built the superlight rims from Farsports, my target drive side tension was 120 kgf, I follow my standard procedure of stress relieving by squeezing parallel spokes with my hands. That's when I heard the rim creak. Not until the wheel was done did I see a crack at the nipple hole and several other bulging.
Which model rims were these? I was told by farsports that there CP model was discontinued to it not being 'stable'
andyindo wrote:absmith wrote:My experience has been so bad about these rims from Farsports, maybe you guys have good experiences now, but then you will find "something interesting" after long ride. The first time i bought and built the superlight rims from Farsports, my target drive side tension was 120 kgf, I follow my standard procedure of stress relieving by squeezing parallel spokes with my hands. That's when I heard the rim creak. Not until the wheel was done did I see a crack at the nipple hole and several other bulging.
Which model rims were these? I was told by farsports that there CP model was discontinued to it not being 'stable'
superlight rims, both tubulars and clinchers. I prefer the stiffer rims, not lighter and weak rims.
Absmith- did you use nipple washers in that wheel?
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