Rivendells are great bikes and the owners are usually experienced cyclists, which has me all the more scratching my head about this thread.
You'd be better off not ignoring signs of impending rim failure, like an obvious and severe rim braking surface crack, than making any sort of moral equivocation about what brake types are best for safety. I'm sorry, but riding this for 1000 miles was not a good idea. If it were me, the first time I noticed it, I would have nursed the bike home and immediately replaced it. I replaced one of my back rims a while ago for some barely noticeable surface cracks, and another one more recently when the eyelets started pulling through. There's no way I would have ridden with the damage that you depict in your picture. Does anyone remember "ABC Quick Check every time you ride"? It's a good idea. On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Patrick Cronin <patrickbcro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After riding a bulging 40-spoke Velocity Dyad rim on my Hunqapillar for > too long it finally cracked. The only way I knew about the bulge is because > once per rotation the wheel rubbed *both* brake pads. The wheel was never > out of true, so I kept riding it ~1000 miles. I decided to rebuild the > wheel only because I hit a sand/salt patch on the road, skidded about ten > feet when the rim hit the brake pads and I nearly went down. Most notable > is that I never flatted, as in not once since this wheel was built in 2011. > I'm curious if I would have known about the issue had I been running disc > brakes. That got me thinking more: I wonder if rim brakes are safer for > this reason. Had I been running discs I likely would have had a > catastrophic rim failure because, other than cosmetic, there would have > been no indication of a problem. Thoughts? > > > -Patrick > > > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7YsTmvCvYnY/Wpay8RfsJeI/AAAAAAAAsrY/azDpm_9nqTgfXd0uBXN694VubKvvY9K9wCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0002.jpg> > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
