I have a pair of the 700c complete wheelsets and I probably put them through more rough stuff than they were intended to be on.
I've ridden them for about 500-600 miles, about 40% gravel (nothing super rough) and 60% road in the Oakland/Berkeley Hills. I ride my bikes kind of hard, with a lot of out of the saddle, high torque efforts. I'm never riding any trails that I'd be more comfortable on a front suspension bike on. The wheels were machine built, so they went out of true rather quickly which was expected. At ~200 miles, I gave them a little touch true to keep them laterally true. But shortly after (~70 miles later), they went out of true again, and I attributed this to my lack of experience truing wheels, it being machine-built wheel, how light the rim is, and/or how hard i'm pushing them. An acquaintance mentioned that he had to true his wheelset about 5 times before they stayed true. I'm not super well equipped to true wheels appropriately, so this would have gotten expensive for me to get a shop to do this regularly, so I just got them detensioned/retensioned by a trusted wheel builder. The wheel builder mentioned that the rear hub is a bit crunchy already and he suggested I replace the bearings and clean out the internals to get 'em smooth again. I wasn't thrilled to hear that, but it's all good. Anyways, the wheels are light and really responsive, I like how quickly they spin up, and they're priced really well. But since I'm not a wheelbuilder-type, I think this is the last machine-built wheelset I ever buy. The wheels were pretty, light, and cheap-ish. But as a friend says, strong, light, cheap; you can only pick two. On Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 11:27:51 PM UTC-7 Slin wrote: > Does anyone have any on-bike experience with the Crust wheelsets? I'm > curious about them. > > S > > On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 2:53:16 PM UTC-7 Collin A wrote: > >> Heyo, >> >> I think this has been brought up in the past, but Crust recently designed >> some new 650b wheels/rims that are a good alternative to the Pacenti >> Brevets and Velocity Quills that serve as excellent rims for lighter >> Rivendell builds. >> >> Anywho, they are now available to purchase as separate rims rather than >> part of the wheelset...the only downside being you can get any drilling you >> want, as long as its 32h. >> >> Crust Rim Brake Rims – Crust Bikes >> <https://crustbikes.com/collections/wheels/products/crust-rim-brake-rims> >> >> Cheers, >> Collin in "subsiding, but not from earthquakes" in Sacramento >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a3b6b248-fba3-4d3b-9343-1e5b47c3ea23n%40googlegroups.com.
