I'm not really concerned with what caused this particular crack. I'm more interested in knowing whether rim brakes provide a sort of built-in wheel health test once-per-rotation in a way that disc brakes do not. Ever since I read about the ENVE failure scandal in PinkBike (https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-enve-rims/) I wondered if disc brake users are not getting as much wheel/rim feedback as rim-brake users. Let's not get carried away with an alloy vs. crabon argument.
-Patrick On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 10:31:16 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Till wrote: > > The impact may have brought on the cracks but chances are the rim was > weakened from the brakes wearing down the brake tracks. Rim wear is just a > fact of life with rim brakes. An easy way to check for rim wear is to feel > the brake tracks with your finger. As they get thin enough to crack they > take on a pronounced "c" shape as tire pressure flexes the top of the rim > outwards. I recommend replacing your rims as soon as they exhibit this > shape. Yours cracked slowly but they can fail catastrophically, blowing off > the tire and causing a loss of control. > > I still like rim brakes! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
