Re: [RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-24 Thread Jim Bronson
I friended QBP on Facebook and I found that they do respond to questions on their page. Might be something they would be willing to respond to. On Nov 22, 2014 8:25 PM, George Schick bhim...@gmail.com wrote: Having begun Winter off-time maintenance on my bikes I noticed enough rim wear on the

Re: [RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-23 Thread George Schick
Yeah, actually it was a search for Velocity that caused me to begin looking around in the first place, finding slim pickin's. Also, I found a notable lack of once very popular Mavic products, as well, especially the Open Pro (except, of course, from that Universal outfit that Joe uses). On

[RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-22 Thread George Schick
Having begun Winter off-time maintenance on my bikes I noticed enough rim wear on the road bike to encourage me to snoop around on the Web to see what's available nowadays. One online retailer that used to carry several dozen brands/models of road rims is now listing only four. Another has

Re: [RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-22 Thread Joe Broach
Nah, you must be looking in weird places. The road rim market is booming, and even better the wide rim revolution is taking over! Depending on who you ask, these new fangled v-shaped profiles may even be an improvement, too (stronger for less weight). Here are over 80 at a shop local to me, though

Re: [RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 22, 2014, at 8:25 PM, George Schick bhim...@gmail.com wrote: Having begun Winter off-time maintenance on my bikes I noticed enough rim wear on the road bike to encourage me to snoop around on the Web to see what's available nowadays. One online retailer that used to carry

Re: [RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-22 Thread George Schick
Huh! Interesting. Well, actually I was looking at well known national online retailers like Performance, Nashbar, and Harris Bike; and a popular regional mail order-only outfit called Lickbike. But your Universal certain beats their trend. Be interesting to see if their stock continues or

Re: [RBW] Disturbing Trend?

2014-11-22 Thread cyclotourist
Made me check my local-ish LBS and on-line retailer: http://www.jensonusa.com/Bicycle-Rims?pg=100o=10880s=b Seems to be a pretty good supply, although I think they should carry more from Velocity. On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:44 PM, George Schick bhim...@gmail.com wrote: Huh! Interesting. Well,