TIm, I had a Velocity Razor rim crack at nearly every drive side spoke hole (rear wheel). It never occurred to me to contact them about it, so I rebuilt the rear wheel myself with a FiR rim. After the fact, I mentioned it on the phone to a guy there (don't remember why I even called) and he offered to rebuild the wheel with a new rim. Since I didn't have a hub to use at that point, I never followed up on it. I suspect if you call them, they will offer to rebuild your wheel with a new rim. No idea if it applies to you, but Velocity used to spec a fairly low maximum spoke tension and my wheel was definitely above it...
Doug On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Tim <tim.ki...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Ok so I've had the Homer for 2 years and am about to get my third rear > wheel. Here's my story: Peter White built the bike and wheels. Velocity > Synergy with XT hubs and 36 spokes.I hit a pothole pretty good fairly early > in the bikes life. LBS said rim couldn't be tried so they built up another > Synergy with my hub. Fast forward to now. That wheel has maybe 5-7k miles > on it and has stress cracks all over it. They started around the spokes and > spread to the sides. So time for another. I'm working in CT now and found a > LBS that knows what a Riv is. Owner builds the wheels. Well, he says that > Synergy rims (and Velocity in general) are just not that good. I've heard > the same thing out of a couple of other people too, and they k ow more > about wheels than me. Thing is, I can't imagine why Riv and Peter would so > highly recommend them if they're poor quality. But my experiences are > making me wonder, what with 2 wheels in around 10k miles. LBS guy is > recommending a Mavic, I think one of the CXP styles saying they're much > stronger. What should I do??? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
