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crmbrule1
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: March 15, 2011
Strengths: stiff, climb well, very light clinchers.Weaknesses: service could be a little better, but overall great company and wheels Im a fan!Bottom Line: Purchased these over topolinos after hearing about the spoke problems with those wheels. These wheels are light and fasr hills, sprints, but I did purchase these before the recalls . sent both of them back and it took several months to get them back. I use these along with my training heavy wheels. Im not a little guy., 210 6 ft 1 and I hammer these wheels./ I also have zips and others and have the confidence for double cenrurys and races on these wheel. I will run them till they are dust. You cant always have a perfect bike wheel they all have issues, including zipp 404s, sent both of thoses back too. these rock!!
Favorite Ride: laguna triangle
Price Paid:
$700.00
Purchased At: ebay
Similar Products Used: zipp, bontrager, speciealzed/hed
Bike Setup: lynkey r330, lemond victorie carbon/ti, look kx,
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colnago888
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: February 9, 2011
Strengths: Stiff, yet compliant with the correct tire/wheel set-up. I recommend Vittorias any day. Love the black rims and spokes and the carbon hubs. I also like the wheel magnet design.Weaknesses: There is a bit of play in the rear hub which I cannot figure out how to fix, but not enough to be a negative. It is a very slight play which probably just needs some tightening of the cones. No other weakness found.Bottom Line: I was hesitant buying carbon-spoked wheels at first, but I did hear that Mavic recalled the first generation R-Sys. I was pleasantly surprised to get these wheels brand new. I put Vittoria Open Corsa CX 320 TPI on the wheels and I really love the set up. The wheels are stiff, but the Vittorias smooth the vibrations. I took a corner at about 22 mph and found the wheels to be responsive. The Vittorias are very grippy and the R-Sys were very stiff on the turns - no wasted energy going around the corners or off-the-saddle sprinting. I did notice the dust caps are just flat pieces of carbon which leads me to believe that I should not ride these wheels in the wet.
Favorite Ride: Colnago CT2 HP with Record 11 Speed
Price Paid:
$700.00
Purchased At: Veloswap
Similar Products Used: American Classic 420 Aero, Campagnolo Shamal ULTRA.
Bike Setup: Colnago CT2 HP, 2011 Campagnolo Record 11 Speed, Ritchey Bar (46 c-c) and FSA SLK 120 mm stem, U.S.E. Alien Carbon seatpost with Selle Italia Flite Gel Flow saddle, Vittoria tires.
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Jared
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: January 27, 2011
Strengths: They are Rock solid a strong as hell. Fast accelerate climb like a bat out of hell. Cant say enough good things about them.Weaknesses: They are a little slower on the flats.Bottom Line: Ture I was afarid to try these wheels too with all the bad stories and awfull stories wth them but I got the revised version so I thought Mavic deserved a second chance. These are incredable wheels, they are stiff as hell but they do smooth out the ride just a little over the Ksyurim SL. They react and acclerate as fast as you even think about it. And they are incredablly strong I am 6'2 185lbs. and they have worked awesome. I ride on rough roads and abuse the hell out of them but they are still perfectlly true. I have even commutted on them for a couple of months.
Favorite Ride: The Hill to Riverside
Price Paid:
$1200.00
Purchased At: A&B Cycle
Similar Products Used: Ksyrum SL, zipp 404
Bike Setup: 2009 CAAD9 Full FORCE and R-Sys
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H2
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: October 27, 2010
Strengths: Light, great at climbing, awesome lateral stiffness.Weaknesses: The stigma of the recall and pictures of people crashing in these wheelsBottom Line: I understand that there have been highly publicized incidents of the wheel breaking up, and one post-recall incident where the wheel also broke.
Mavic actually responded to velonews regarding that incident. There has not been a second incident involving post-recall wheels.
These wheels are very nice and climbs hills flawlessly. The 2010 version comes in different flavors, but uses the same post-recall spokes.
I've used the post-recall wheels for one season and trust that they wont break. I've hit potholes and generally abused the wheels. People say these wheels aren't aero - but when you're going up a hill, who cares? Haven't need to true these wheels yet! Although I'm not sure how they would be trued because you can't exactly stretch carbon...
Favorite Ride: The Luray Classic
Price Paid:
$500.00
Purchased At: craigslist
Similar Products Used: Reynolds attack, cosmic carbones, DA
Bike Setup: 09 siena, 08 TCR, DA 7900
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Marc
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: July 29, 2010
Strengths: * Look great due to carbon spokes.
* Rims are strong and robust.
* available in tubular (singles) which I use.
Weaknesses: * Both wheels very slow compared to top shelf racing wheels even 25 year old ones.
* Front creaks loudly and constantly when under load and out of the saddle hill climbing.
* Mavic Australia could not repair creak!
* The spoke problem is not completely sorted since the general recall and people are still encountering spoke breakage.
* The spoke issue now has me concerned as people are still being injured.
* Very expensive for what is only a flash training wheel.
Bottom Line: My Mavic R Sys wheels are two years old and have travelled only 10k km so far. During this time although reliable I have found the R Sys wheels to be slow due to poor quality bearing hubs. The wheel bearing hubs are no better or faster than the base level wheels and not even close to Campag Chorus or Record hubs. I have very old (25 yrs)Campag Record hubed hard silver Fiamme wheels that are miles faster than these wheels and not much heavier, even with 36 spokes. 36 s.s spokes do not collapse!
In order to coax good speed out of these wheels I have had to back the bearing tension off and this results in the front wheel creaking like mad when under load on hill climbs. This has been the case from brand new.
The front wheel was replaced as part of the General recall and the hub is exactly the same, slow and creaks. I have had Mavic Australia look at it and they cannot find a problem. Mavic just fobbed me off!
The wheels are not race grade wheels at all not even close to my old Fiammes which are true race wheels albeit old.
The Mavics are very high priced training wheels only which look good with carbon spokes.
The wheel rims are however very robust and stiff.
The spoke breakage issue is a real problem even after the new Ultimate improvements and people are still being injured, which now has me a little worried.
I will be replacing these wheels shortly with Campag Shamals due to much faster, don't creak, more reliable and look great.
Favorite Ride: Mt Coottha Brisbane.
Price Paid:
$1950.00
Purchased At: Mackay QLD
Similar Products Used: Hard Silver Fiamme's with Record hubs - fantastic!
Campag Shamal's - Great!
Fiamme Road Greens on Sake hubs - great training wheels and faster than Mavics!
Bike Setup: Full carbon road bike with full Campag Super Record 10sp group set. All Zipp bars stems etc.
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