Carbon rims On enduro style bike, general consensus?

WMullins
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9/4/2024 8:27pm

Went from riding a variety of alloy wheels (Spank, DT, CB Synthesis) to the new ERA's and have been loving it so far. Takes a couple rides to get used to the flex characteristics if you're riding high-speed stuff but they're pretty much just better or equivalent in every way to alloy. The spin up speed is noticeably less (-150 g per wheel approx) which really helps on any sort of rolling terrain. I did manage to crack a front rim but it was a situation where any alloy wheel most likely would have taco'd and sent me flying facefirst. Had a new wheel in 3 days with no charge so can't really complain there. I would recommend the ERA's or any WAO set as my buddies have had good experiences with them.

Explodo
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9/9/2024 8:10am

I'm normally 210, I think I ride hard, but I ride alone all the time so take that with a grain of salt.  I like going fast and rock gardens.  I have a set of Ibis(I believe they're actually Stan's) carbon 35 internal rims and they've been great.  I have two sets of Nextie carbon rims and they've also been completely trouble free....and cheap.

I've broken a few spokes, but I'm running the Sapim CX-Ray spokes and they don't take kindly to rocks jumping up and bashing them.  They only bend initially, but eventually they fail at the bend from repeated flex.

9/9/2024 10:59am

You are collecting lots of anecdotical experience but here is mine. I have been destroying 2/3 alloy rims for years, even riding them with tubes when they were to damaged to hold hair. I had a bad experience with pricy Enve wheels  back in the days that got crushed but this season I'm back on carbon wheels on all my bikes. I cracked a really light LB wheels but I have been quite impressed with the newer Enve AM30, they are supposed to be AM but I used them without issues for Enduro and DH, I have also some E13 lg1 on my DH bike and so far they look rock solid.
It's a bit nerve-wracking when I hear them pinging in the rocks but they had no damages however I usually ride with the victoria inserts.

SteveClimber
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9/9/2024 3:52pm

I want to try carbon rims, but I prefer narrow rim widths (less than 30mm) to keep the tyres rounder, particularly the new conti tyres that are very square on 30mm rims.

I just accept that I rebuild wheels once a year and always have some EX471's in the garage and buy them on discount from bikediscount.de

I did see WAO are testing a 28mm rim in the DH this year, so that may be what i go for

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