a punt for Mavic wheels ...

[KeithB]

you can drive a double-cabbie over a Mavic MTB wheel (not that I recommend you do that!)  - then all it needs is a new skewer, a new rotor, some spokes tightened - and it's good to go!    

 

Let's just say I had an unfortunate incident yesterday -  forgot to load my front wheel and reversed over it       I dropped it off earlier this morning at the LBS - and they just called to tell me the above good news... 

 

[Johan Bornman]

Give me that same wheel and that same bakkie and I'll prove that a wheel cannot survive an accident.

 

Your details of the damage is sketchy, but you do say that it only needed spokes tightened. By riding over a wheel, spokes don't come undone, so I have to assume that the rim was either bent or, it simply went into a taco and undoing the spokes and re-doing them again did the trick.

 

A bent rim cannot be corrected by tightening spokes. That wheel will fail sooner or later and will never stay straight.

 

This is the case for any MTB wheel - Mavic or not. Perhaps you want to have a look at the thread Mavic Ksyrium Case study. It'll give you a better idea of Mavic's demise as manufacturer of quality products.

 

[MintSauce]

 

There's only one punt I'll give a Mavic wheel

 

punt

1.	Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground. Compare drop kick, place kick.

 

MintSauce2008-09-10 02:31:36