Throw them away.
2012-08-29 03:24:44
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Rim advice again.
So a good friend of mine gave me these carbon rims, they are tubular not clincher and I know nothing about them. Should I have these built and which hub should I use. I plan on putting them on the single speed. If you read the Team Decaf thread you read about my rim disaster on the single speed and why I'm looking to replace them.
2012-08-29 03:22:02
Really?
2012-08-29 03:27:33
Not feeling the Buzz?
2012-08-29 03:28:11
Questionable quality tubular carbon rims that are how many years old on a commuter?
2012-08-29 03:35:48
They are really old.
2012-08-29 03:37:00
So you had a wheel break in a way that is undetermined as of yet, but are looking to build up rims that are garbage as a suitable replacement? And tubular to boot? I know those exact rims. As in the ones in your possession. They were free many times before coming into your possession.
If you're interested, I'll sell you a set of tubular track wheels. Probably not as useless as whatever you could build into those horrible rims
2012-08-29 03:48:01
I was just using the break as an excuse to get carbon wheels. I was hoping they were not garbage. I think it's funny that they keep changing hands. Track wheels sounds tempting.
2012-08-29 03:51:26
tubular tubes (?) are expensive and pretty hard to repair. Plus you should use glue to put them on rim. And there is a certain technology to do so. Or you are facing pretty good chances that tube will roll over during cornering and you will eat asphalt.
2012-08-29 04:07:17
I prefer the taste of concrete. A little less salty.
2012-08-29 04:08:44
What's the O.L.D. on the single speed? 120mm or 130mm?
2012-08-29 06:35:59
Haha that's funny those rims are still floating around. I cut them free from a set a hubs 2ish years ago. The hubs are still good.
2012-08-29 10:18:44
O.k. what is the story on these rims?
2012-08-29 10:19:57
http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/rims-for-free
My friend found a few wheelsets in the garbage of a guy who used to race. Those rims were on a set. He decided he wasn't going to use them so gave them to me for the hubs. Later that year I actually saw a guy who was using the exact same wheelset for cyclocross. He said that the rims seemed to be holding up ok. Those rims are really heavy and will be pretty slow I imagine.
2012-08-29 11:14:39
Who knows what has happened to those rims over the years and how safe they are now. I don't know how those rims are constructed but it seemed to be an aluminum rim with carbon glued onto it. The spoke nipples sit in the carbon part. The carbon could come unglued from the aluminum or the spokes could pull through the carbon part.
2012-08-29 11:31:52
Make them into art.
2012-08-29 11:36:16
I second art. They would look pretty cool hanging on a wall or laced into some sort of chandelier.
2012-08-29 11:44:30
@edmonds that is what I imagined someone would do with them when I gave them away/ why I didn't throw them away.
2012-08-29 11:44:50