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Tour de France supplier Mavic placed in receivership


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I liked the look of their shoes but the toe box was to narrow so they never fitted.

Have a set of Open Pro rims on Hope hubs and probably best training wheels around.Just wish they’d make them a little wider.

I have found the Mavic wheels to be stiffer and better quality over the same priced Zipps.

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Maybe if they stopped using retarded spokes that the suppliers never have and nipples that dont fall apart in 3 months they may make some money.

 

 

to be fair the retarded spokes seldom broke and hence Dragons seldom had to keep stock. Fugly helmets and R-Sys (arses) wheels were their biggest faux pas in more recent history.

2-pawl MTB hubs weren't too smart either but at least they were easily serviced in the field.

Mavic invented the boutique wheeset when everyone who wanted to build a decent wheelset had to base that wheel on a Mavic rim and either a Shimano, campagnolo or Chris King hubset.

I serviced a 20yr old set of Ksyrium just before ToGH. Waaaaaaay over 100,000km on them and the oke still uses them for training after I sold them to him 12 years ago. Good luck trying to change a spoke though as by now they're a permanent fixture

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