Chinese Carbon Wheels

[carbon29er]

How much did these set you back in total, if you don't mind me asking, and where did you order from?

Considering having a new set of wheels made up since my current ones are starting to look unhealthy.

I imported the rims and the hubs and built myself so my price is a bit lower than you would pay. What exactly are you looking for? Road/MTB? Rim or disc brakes?

[Eon du Plessis]

I imported the rims and the hubs and built myself so my price is a bit lower than you would pay. What exactly are you looking for? Road/MTB? Rim or disc brakes?

Importing is fine and I'd get a local builder to build the wheels for me.

Road, rim.

 

Many people seem to think, and I'm inclined to agree, that you get much better value for money, and often a better quality product, going for a custom wheel build, assembled by someone who knows what they're doing, when compared with something that's likely at least partially machine built and finished by a kid earning R2/day in a factory in some far East country.

[Mopkop]

Anyone bring in anything lately?

 

Hows our post office doing? Are they still messed up?

 

Looking at something from Flyxii but theyre not understanding using another courier to bypass SA Postal Services. Let me know

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Anyone bring in anything lately?

 

Hows our post office doing? Are they still messed up?

 

Looking at something from Flyxii but theyre not understanding using another courier to bypass SA Postal Services. Let me know

What about using Aramex Global Shopper? Create an account, send Flyxii their Chinese address and bob's your auntie's mom. 

[Mopkop]

What about using Aramex Global Shopper? Create an account, send Flyxii their Chinese address and bob's your auntie's mom. 

How does that work? Prices more or less? JZ is actually my aunties mom

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

How does that work? Prices more or less? JZ is actually my aunties mom

https://www.aramexglobalshopper.com/

 

EDIT: Iwan has used it pretty extensively in his efforts to test it out. You know, for reasons. 

Edited April 7, 2016 by Myles Mayhew

[V12man]

I thought I would post a short review of the rims I bought from Peter at http://www.xmcarbonspeed.com/

 

 

These are the rims I bought - specced with no inner spoke holes - thus no rim tape needed:

http://www.xmcarbonspeed.com/Productinfo.asp?f=1395

 

I have been riding only 1 of the 2 sets I built so far, and so far I have used them exclusively, and been very happy with their performance over more than 1000km of fairly serious off road racing, including 3 multi day events (and some training too):

 

The Route66 MTB experience - http://route66mtb.co.za/ 

After this the wheels were retensioned and truing checked – with no issues at all – despite a few surface scratches due to the rough and rocky nature of the  course

The Garden route 300 – http://www.gardenrouteevents.co.za/overview

After this the wheels were retensioned and truing checked – with no issues at all, despite a very bad landing on a major drop off that I was pretty sure was going to cause some problems – but didn’t.

The Cape Epic – a UCI Cat 0 8 day event - http://www.cape-epic.com/

 

No issues were experiences with the wheels at all – nothing – wheels are still true as the day we started, and I haven’t yet checked the tension, but I think it is fine, despite being hammered hard over the 8 days.

 

So – am I pleased – absolutely – very very pleased indeed - will I reccomend Peter's products - absolutely.

[Meezo]

post some pictures...

[Rocket-Boy]

I thought I would post a short review of the rims I bought from Peter at http://www.xmcarbonspeed.com/

 

 

These are the rims I bought - specced with no inner spoke holes - thus no rim tape needed:

http://www.xmcarbonspeed.com/Productinfo.asp?f=1395

 

I have been riding only 1 of the 2 sets I built so far, and so far I have used them exclusively, and been very happy with their performance over more than 1000km of fairly serious off road racing, including 3 multi day events (and some training too):

 

The Route66 MTB experience - http://route66mtb.co.za/ 

After this the wheels were retensioned and truing checked – with no issues at all – despite a few surface scratches due to the rough and rocky nature of the  course

The Garden route 300 – http://www.gardenrouteevents.co.za/overview

After this the wheels were retensioned and truing checked – with no issues at all, despite a very bad landing on a major drop off that I was pretty sure was going to cause some problems – but didn’t.

The Cape Epic – a UCI Cat 0 8 day event - http://www.cape-epic.com/

 

No issues were experiences with the wheels at all – nothing – wheels are still true as the day we started, and I haven’t yet checked the tension, but I think it is fine, despite being hammered hard over the 8 days.

 

So – am I pleased – absolutely – very very pleased indeed - will I reccomend Peter's products - absolutely.

Looks like very decent rims.

Price wise per rim? I cant see any direct pricing on their website.

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Looks like very decent rims.

Price wise per rim? I cant see any direct pricing on their website.

$ 160 per rim at last check.

[no calves]

Hi Guys.

 

Looking for 60mm UD rims. must be 32hole for both. I want to build them onto my powertap hubs.

 

Any idea where to start looking? Anybody got  some laying around?

 

Kind Regards

Francois

[V12man]

Looks like very decent rims.

Price wise per rim? I cant see any direct pricing on their website.

Drop Peter an email for pricing - for 4 rims was 155 per and shipping about 55 - signficantly cheaper on shipping than lb.

 

I have posted pics in one of the enduro threads (Myles did it for me), and they are spectacular in the flesh.

[LOOK695]

Anyone bring in anything lately?

 

Hows our post office doing? Are they still messed up?

 

Looking at something from Flyxii but theyre not understanding using another courier to bypass SA Postal Services. Let me know

Got some rims from yishunbike. They use RPX courier. Locally it bypasses the post office. I was contacted by the local office, they did all the necessary paperwork. Fast and efficient service

[Mopkop]

To the guys using the Chinese wheels, will there be a noticeable performance difference between the novatec/powerway hubs VS the dt swiss 240s?

 

I know that Chris King is next level lekker just curious to know if spending almost double to upgrade to DT swiss 240s will have a significant performance increase

 

PEACE

[GrahamS2]

I thought I would post a short review of the rims I bought from Peter at http://www.xmcarbonspeed.com/

 

 

These are the rims I bought - specced with no inner spoke holes - thus no rim tape needed:

http://www.xmcarbonspeed.com/Productinfo.asp?f=1395

Would you mind explaining how the no inner spoke  hole concept works? How do you get the nipples in?

 

Those are seriously nice looking rims. What was the lead time on getting them landed?

[V12man]

Would you mind explaining how the no inner spoke  hole concept works? How do you get the nipples in?

 

Those are seriously nice looking rims. What was the lead time on getting them landed?

Add a small section of magnetic spoke to the nipple and drop it in the valve hole - drag it round with a small magnet - pretty easy, and does take fractionally longer than a normal rim - of course dropping the nipple into the rim once you have removed the magnetic spoke means shaking it out the valve hole again - a bit of a PITA, and you quickly learn not to do that It is also pretty hard on the fingertips.

 

It is well worth the effort though to get rid of the tape - the extra time taken for a set of rims is probably about the same time as taping them up - retaping is a thing of the past, as is damaged tape (I have had a thorn go through the tape over a spoke hole once... fortunately only a 12km run home in the heat after using both spare bombs and a couple of plugs - didn't notice till I stripped the tire off at home...)

 

 

 

I had them in about 3 weeks from order