Dear Mike, 6,000mi is not my typical rim life!
If I don't whack a rear wheel on a rock or pothole or something, it takes two or three years (20-30,000mi) to wear the front brake track to half-depth for a bike used on roads (paved or otherwise). Rear rims are basically along for the ride, and get replaced when I wear a front rim out due to caution on my part. The 650B Synergy OC rims have a known cracking problem (a problem not shared by the A-23 OC rims in 650B or 700C). Building the rim into the wheel is part of the expense of using a rim--why shouldn't they make you whole for a known defect, while making sure that the build meets their build specs (to prevent a repeated warranty claim with a presumably fixed product)? I've got a set of cracked 650B Synergy OC rims, but those cracks appeared a few months after build, and haven't gotten bigger in two years of mixed-road riding. They're on my guest bike now, so don't see much use. Best, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Friday, August 29, 2014 10:21:43 PM UTC-6, Mike Schiller wrote: > > I would have chalked this up to normal wear and paid for new wheels. Why > should Velocity have to rebuild your wheel for free? I love a bargain but > 6000 miles seems low end for rim life but not an exception. This just > seems wrong to me. > > ~mike > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
