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Reviewed by: Brad(Unregistered User)
Review Date June 10, 2008 Overall Rating
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Used product for 2 Years
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at LBS Favorite Ride: Smooth and free of dogs, rednecks and headwinds Bike Setup: Lemond Sarthe Summary: I just finished a tour from Portland, ME to Key West, FL on my Lemond Sarthe with these wheels. I pulled a BOB trailer so the rear wheel saw a little more strain then it received the previous year (pulling 50 lbs, I weight about 180).
First of all, I was very happy with the wheels before touring. Ride quality was good, hubs and aerodynamics of the wheel seemed great for the class of the wheel and the wheel stayed true for the first couple thousand miles.
After the rear wheel came out of true once it started happening more frequently. During the tour I had it trued up three times (all in the last 1000 miles) and the rim started cracking around every spoke on the drive side. I thought it may be due to the trailer (which probably didn't help), but it seems as though a lot of people have this problem. I'm very lucky that I made it the last 500 miles because when I arrived in Key West and cleaned off the rim I saw 1 inch cracks that were starting to run parallel to the rim instead of the starburst cracks propogating from the spokes.
In all fairness, I did not true these wheels and I'm not an expert wheelbuilder so it is possible that the spokes where over tensioned by one of the bikeshops. I have not had this happen with other rims though.
Even though I was pulling the trailer, I do not think I put excessive torque on the wheel. I was in a couple climbing situations that required some mashing but I've mashed on the pedals harder without the trailer on 30 mile rides here in the NE. Most of the riding was low gear spinning through varied to flat terrain. Strengths: Smooth rolling, some aerodynamic traits. Weaknesses: Poor rim quality around spokes.
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Reviewed by: dotey(Unregistered User)
Review Date June 5, 2008 Overall Rating
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Used product for 2 Years
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$0.00 Bike Setup: Stock Trek Pilot 5.0 Summary: I am on my 3rd set of Bontrager rims. The first rim cracked, the remaining 2 have the spokes loosen in 300-500 miles of riding. Appears all Trek did to stop the rims from cracking was to loosen the tension on the spokes. Trek needs to be honest and admit this wheel was not designed correctly. Strengths: None Weaknesses: Bad design
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Reviewed by: rhodul(Unregistered User)
Review Date May 20, 2008 Overall Rating
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Used product for 2 Years
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$0.00 Favorite Ride: Mountains Bike Setup: Trek 5200 Summary: These wheels came with my Trek 5200. I weigh 85kg and only rode about 5000km on them.
The rear wheel completely disintegrated! Spokes are coming out of the rim. I have a friend who has the same wheels. We checked his, and he has crack around every single spoke nipple on the rim.
Store owner told me that he has seen it before. Will try to run it as warranty.
Stay away from these wheels if you can!
I'm upgrading to Mavic Ksyrium Elite.
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Reviewed by: Marcus Willson(Unregistered User)
Review Date April 27, 2008 Overall Rating
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at Bike Force, South Pe Favorite Ride: Round-the-river, Perth Bike Setup: Scott CR-1 full carbon with Ultegra and otherwise Bontrager components (never had a Bontrager part fail!) Summary: Came with Trek 2000 as stock. Reasonably light (1770g for pair I think). Have held up extremely well. After many thousand km's, have only had to do minor tweaking to keep true. Nice looking and have been absolutely reliable, though I am not heavy (75kg). Recommend as a good everyday, moderately light wheel. Role very well (out-role many of my fellow riders much more expensive wheels). Strengths: Very good roling, moderately light, stay true. Weaknesses: Blade spokes slightly painful to true. Similar Products Used: None
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Reviewed by: the weak link(Unregistered User)
Review Date April 9, 2008 Overall Rating
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Used product for 1 Year
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at BicycleSport Favorite Ride: Da boonays Summary: These came with my Lemond. After reading so many horrible reviews about them, I felt compelled to say that I don't think they suck.
I popped a spoke two days ago. I'm a lesser clyde (210#) and was in a club ride trying to keep up with the dawgs. Otherwise I haven't had any trouble with them. Strengths: I didn't have to pay extra for them. Weaknesses: They don't suck, I think.
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