DT Swiss RR 1.1

Price Paid:  $0.00 at LBS

Summary:
As mentioned previously, this rim is WAY, WAY too tight. Michelins, Bontragers and Vittoria will not mount with any reasonable effort. Only tires that I could lever on were Veloflex Black, and that was in the comfort of my garage with multiple Park tire levers and a Crank Bros speed lever. I dread thinking about having to wrestle with these on the side of the road someday fixing a flat - that's going to suck.

Question to DT Swiss - what on earth were you thinking????

Strengths:
Light

Weaknesses:
World's tightest rim - Can't get tires on!!!

Similar Products Used:
Open Pros (very sorry that I strayed away from these)

Price Paid:  $0.00 at odds and endos

Favorite Ride:
fingerlakes

Bike Setup:
Strong sloper/Campy, various handbuilts- 18lbs with peds.

Summary:
Single eyelet rim cracked. Contacted Mike who made it right.

Strengths:
Great riding rim.

Weaknesses:
Cracked after 4000 miles or so.

Similar Products Used:
Open pro-no cracking 15000 miles later

Price Paid:  $0.00 at Competitive Cyclist

Bike Setup:
Ridley Damocles, with Campy bits.

Summary:
Put about 2700 miles on this rim laced to my Powertap. Compared to other rims of this type that I have used it has required constant maintenance due to coming out of true, broken spokes and finally the rim gave out completely as one of the eyelets of the rim pulled completely out taking a 1/4 by 1/2 inch piece of the rim itself out leaving a big whole in my rim. Throughout I have had shops truing it up when it got beyond what I was willing to fool with. Nothing stays true forever but the type of failure I experienced is in my opinion something that should never happen to a box section rim with 28 spokes laced 3x on both sides with DT Competition spokes. That should be a pretty sturdy build and in the past rims like Open Pros etc. have last years for me while this one didn't even make it halfway through a season.

Strengths:
Built by usually reliable company.

Weaknesses:
Eyelets, I am not the first person to experience damage around the eyelets. These rims are developing a well earned reputation for cracking in that area.

Similar Products Used:
Mavic, Campy, & Neuvation wheels.

Price Paid:  $69.00 at bicycle link

Favorite Ride:
3 gap

Bike Setup:
2002 Litespeed Vortex. Dura ace 9 speed. deda newton stem and bar. alien post and pave saddle. both front and rear wheel. 32 2x 14/15 dt db spokes. brass nipples chris king hubs.

Summary:
approx 3,000 mile on wheelset.

Strengths:
stiff. comfortable. reliable. reasonably light for a training rim. good enough for racing. above average climbing and great descending rim.

Weaknesses:
tight rim. i would not use contis with this rim. vittoria, vredestein work fine. Rear wheel does not stay in true as much as I would like. however I do weigh 190 lbs so maybe that should have been expected.

Similar Products Used:
open pro (on late 1980's era bianchi, dura 7701 rims-avoid the 7701 wheels at all costs.

Price Paid:  $0.00 at Racer's Edge, Brookl

Favorite Ride:
Nyack

Bike Setup:
Cinelli Olympic track bike

Summary:
Going into year three with my DTs and they've been brilliant so far. Gerald at Racer's Edge in Brooklyn built them up on a pair of high-flange Phil hubs with DT spokes, and they've yet to require a single key-turn of truing despite some pretty savage pavement in NYC and on the back roads of the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm a light rider (150lbs), so that's probably a factor, but after looking into dozens of rims from dozens of manufacturers, I'm still very happy with my choice.

Strengths:
Quality, durability.

Weaknesses:
Styling, surface cracking around eyelets (an aesthetic issue, not a functional one).

Similar Products Used:
Mavic CXP-22

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