Went from riding a variety of alloy wheels (Spank, DT, CB Synthesis) to the new ERA's and have been loving it so far. Takes a couple rides to get used to the flex characteristics if you're riding high-speed stuff but they're pretty much just better or equivalent in every way to alloy. The spin up speed is noticeably less (-150 g per wheel approx) which really helps on any sort of rolling terrain. I did manage to crack a front rim but it was a situation where any alloy wheel most likely would have taco'd and sent me flying facefirst. Had a new wheel in 3 days with no charge so can't really complain there. I would recommend the ERA's or any WAO set as my buddies have had good experiences with them.
I'm normally 210, I think I ride hard, but I ride alone all the time so take that with a grain of salt. I like going fast and rock gardens. I have a set of Ibis(I believe they're actually Stan's) carbon 35 internal rims and they've been great. I have two sets of Nextie carbon rims and they've also been completely trouble free....and cheap.
I've broken a few spokes, but I'm running the Sapim CX-Ray spokes and they don't take kindly to rocks jumping up and bashing them. They only bend initially, but eventually they fail at the bend from repeated flex.
You are collecting lots of anecdotical experience but here is mine. I have been destroying 2/3 alloy rims for years, even riding them with tubes when they were to damaged to hold hair. I had a bad experience with pricy Enve wheels back in the days that got crushed but this season I'm back on carbon wheels on all my bikes. I cracked a really light LB wheels but I have been quite impressed with the newer Enve AM30, they are supposed to be AM but I used them without issues for Enduro and DH, I have also some E13 lg1 on my DH bike and so far they look rock solid. It's a bit nerve-wracking when I hear them pinging in the rocks but they had no damages however I usually ride with the victoria inserts.
I want to try carbon rims, but I prefer narrow rim widths (less than 30mm) to keep the tyres rounder, particularly the new conti tyres that are very square on 30mm rims.
I just accept that I rebuild wheels once a year and always have some EX471's in the garage and buy them on discount from bikediscount.de
I did see WAO are testing a 28mm rim in the DH this year, so that may be what i go for
Went from riding a variety of alloy wheels (Spank, DT, CB Synthesis) to the new ERA's and have been loving it so far. Takes a couple rides to get used to the flex characteristics if you're riding high-speed stuff but they're pretty much just better or equivalent in every way to alloy. The spin up speed is noticeably less (-150 g per wheel approx) which really helps on any sort of rolling terrain. I did manage to crack a front rim but it was a situation where any alloy wheel most likely would have taco'd and sent me flying facefirst. Had a new wheel in 3 days with no charge so can't really complain there. I would recommend the ERA's or any WAO set as my buddies have had good experiences with them.
I'm normally 210, I think I ride hard, but I ride alone all the time so take that with a grain of salt. I like going fast and rock gardens. I have a set of Ibis(I believe they're actually Stan's) carbon 35 internal rims and they've been great. I have two sets of Nextie carbon rims and they've also been completely trouble free....and cheap.
I've broken a few spokes, but I'm running the Sapim CX-Ray spokes and they don't take kindly to rocks jumping up and bashing them. They only bend initially, but eventually they fail at the bend from repeated flex.
You are collecting lots of anecdotical experience but here is mine. I have been destroying 2/3 alloy rims for years, even riding them with tubes when they were to damaged to hold hair. I had a bad experience with pricy Enve wheels back in the days that got crushed but this season I'm back on carbon wheels on all my bikes. I cracked a really light LB wheels but I have been quite impressed with the newer Enve AM30, they are supposed to be AM but I used them without issues for Enduro and DH, I have also some E13 lg1 on my DH bike and so far they look rock solid.
It's a bit nerve-wracking when I hear them pinging in the rocks but they had no damages however I usually ride with the victoria inserts.
I want to try carbon rims, but I prefer narrow rim widths (less than 30mm) to keep the tyres rounder, particularly the new conti tyres that are very square on 30mm rims.
I just accept that I rebuild wheels once a year and always have some EX471's in the garage and buy them on discount from bikediscount.de
I did see WAO are testing a 28mm rim in the DH this year, so that may be what i go for
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