I had over 11,000 km on a Velocity Dyad 700c, on a bike tour, so heavily loaded all the way (the rim already had about 4000km of unloaded riding on it before the tour). While touring, I broke some spokes - I hit a pothole too hard - and was never able to gt the wheel to hold true for that long afterwards. Ended up over-tightening some spokes and caused the rim to crack. By the time I replaced the rim it had 11,000km of heavily loaded riding often on dirt roads, plus about 4000 easier km from before. It was a 36h Dyad and I don't think it was good enough for heavy touring, but for lighter duty I think the Dyad would be a fine wheel. I'm guessing the Synergy would be similar.
FWIW I ended up replacing my rims in Bolivia with some Alex X3100 36h rims. They gave me no trouble for 14,000km of heavy loads and are a cheaper option than Velocity. Heavier though. The CXP's are not very wide, so you might want to check that out if you like to run wider tires. On Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:19:50 AM UTC-7, Tim 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/3-UCJeiP1D8J. 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.
