DIPSLICK Posted June 16, 2014 Share Rated as a trail/am and enduro rim! !!I do rate his skill on shifting weight had a bit to do with it but £egend ride and skill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted June 16, 2014 Share DT swiss site doesn't indicate that wheel is TLR. Might be an oversight in the product listing, but i doubt ppl will rush out and buy it if the rubber blows off 1 min into a run. Mntboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipV Posted June 16, 2014 Share So the rim is plenty strong, but why did the tyre blow off the rim so easily? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdLRSA Posted June 16, 2014 Share So the rim is plenty strong, but why did the tyre blow off the rim so easily? Because he got a flat. And go balls out with a flat tyre down Leogang and the tyre will try to bail. Edit: or did it blow off spectacularly? Cant remember now. Edited June 16, 2014 by vdLRSA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1979 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Because he got a flat. And go balls out with a flat tyre down Leogang and the tyre will try to bail. Edit: or did it blow off spectacularly? Cant remember now. I think he meant why did it unseat the bead so easily to result in a flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1979 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Because he got a flat. And go balls out with a flat tyre down Leogang and the tyre will try to bail. Edit: or did it blow off spectacularly? Cant remember now. I think he meant why did it unseat the bead so easily to result in a flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted June 17, 2014 Share I think he meant why did it unseat the bead so easily to result in a flat. i dont think that rim is UST compliant, or at least TLR (tubeless ready). But that thought it based on the lack of info from the DT swiss site. I didn't trawl the rest of the internet to verify. It's enduro rim. seems gwin was going for weight saving over the EX500, which is DT Swiss' dedicate DH rim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIPSLICK Posted June 17, 2014 Share DT swiss site doesn't indicate that wheel is TLR. Might be an oversight in the product listing, but i doubt ppl will rush out and buy it if the rubber blows off 1 min into a run.the rubber blew off in 1 min,,,,,,,did you miss the abuse it took for the rest of the ride,i must say i wasnt thinking about the rubber other than rock /puncture/flat,,,now if those were AMERICIAN CLASSICS :ph34r: dips runs off back to the naughty boy corner Ramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp Posted June 17, 2014 Share I think he meant why did it unseat the bead so easily to result in a flat. Foldable tyres normally do, once they collapse under pressure there is not much supporting them.When the whole UST thing got launched years back, you would have been very hard pressed to have found a non UST tyre, they were very strict about the fact that the bead and tyre had to be approved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted June 17, 2014 Share Foldable tyres normally do, once they collapse under pressure there is not much supporting them.When the whole UST thing got launched years back, you would have been very hard pressed to have found a non UST tyre, they were very strict about the fact that the bead and tyre had to be approved. Wasn't it MAXXIS that owns the "UST" brand / trademark? I heard somewhere that tires that want to be certified as UST need to go to them for testing and approval before using that little "UST" logo. Which is also why there are manufacturers with their own interpretation of the standard so they don't have to pay the licensing fee - TLR for Schwalbe, etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp Posted June 17, 2014 Share Wasn't it MAXXIS that owns the "UST" brand / trademark? I heard somewhere that tires that want to be certified as UST need to go to them for testing and approval before using that little "UST" logo. Which is also why there are manufacturers with their own interpretation of the standard so they don't have to pay the licensing fee - TLR for Schwalbe, etc etc. It was or rather is a Mavic design. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted June 17, 2014 Share It was or rather is a Mavic design. Ah. Great, thanks... Wyatt Earp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mileage Posted June 17, 2014 Share Hell NO ... even Greg says - if DH goes Olympic it will KILL the discipline. Think of the logistics ... Its too much of an issue ... If DBN was to hold the Olympics they would have to use PMB (100km away) and its not the best track even in my own right as we dont have the elevation ... then - think of the other venues we have had for olymics - London = Fort Bill (like 600km away) ..... China ... (who knows) ..... Greece (you need to go to the alps) ... Sydney = Carins ..... So the new ones - Next is Rio = ???Then Tokyo = ??? So for XCO thats easy but for DH - to produce a world level DH - is F-ing hard .... so is just not worth it Rio is easy Favelas!!! Look at what redbull have done with their urban downhills. Imagine how many people would line that course! It would be epic. There are several sports that have out of town venues i.e rowing and sailing are often 30-80km away if the venue is right. I know rowing in Barcelona was 80km away and in Beijing 50km. Even London was 25km away from main village. Enough time in traffic that they set up a separate mini village for rowing/canoing/kayaking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelhicks Posted June 17, 2014 Share Rio is easy Favelas!!! Look at what redbull have done with their urban downhills. Imagine how many people would line that course! It would be epic. There are several sports that have out of town venues i.e rowing and sailing are often 30-80km away if the venue is right. I know rowing in Barcelona was 80km away and in Beijing 50km. Even London was 25km away from main village. Enough time in traffic that they set up a separate mini village for rowing/canoing/kayaking Yeah fair enough - but in many instances the logistics are too much for many events ... Under the Rules of the UCI an Urban Downhill would NEVER be allowed as an olympic course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidewinder. Posted June 17, 2014 Share Yeah fair enough - but in many instances the logistics are too much for many events ... Under the Rules of the UCI an Urban Downhill would NEVER be allowed as an olympic course. Nige maybe you can enlighten me here, why didn't Greg have a ZA sleeve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_mil Posted June 17, 2014 Share Afaik each countries national champ gets that honour. Greg is not the current SA champ. Thus no ZA flag on his sleeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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