What are you doing to your poor wheels? I'm hard on wheels (~250lbs and not a finesse rider) and I get at least 2-3 years out of a set of machine-built wheels. Handbuilt wheels should last until you wear through the rim barring accidents. My current commuter ride has 3 years on a XT/Mavic X517 combo at the rear. 32-spoke 3x of course. The front got rebuilt after 10 years (Bad bearings meant a new hub, needs replacement though, the rim is not entirely true anymore).
-Adam On 12/17/07, Polyhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to rebuild the wheels on the commuter which has no problem with > > hills, no > > they never broke, but over 15 years the spokes have stretched (I keep tight > > wheels) to the point where they come through the nipples. Yes the factory > > should > > have used 2mm shorter spokes but I imagine the automatic wheel building > > machine > > would have had problems with them. I am also going to put alloy rims on the > > 3-speed, so another spoking job. Then there is the junk Raleigh I want to do > > something with. I guess I will have enough to keep me busy for the winter. > > > > 15 years?? I'm lucky to get a year out of a back wheel. Right now running a > shimano XT hub laced up to a mavic cxp33. I"ve gotten a year and a half out > of that and i'm impressed with it. Mind you, i think what does it out here > are the hills. Its 450ft of elevation change between work and home, and its > not just straight up hill it wanders. There are a couple of places i top > 30mph and that seems to kind of ruin the rim. Between climbing hard and > decending fast the spokes start to pull through the rim. Had to go with a > mavic rim this go around because velocity deep v's were on like infinite back > order. > > > Graywolf > > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com > > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
