Re: [RBW] Velocity quality

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Norris
I have several wheelsets built with Velocity Aerohead rims, and thousands of miles of use on them. Never a single problem. Eric N www.CampyOnly.com CampyOnlyGuy.blogspot.com Twitter: @CampyOnlyGuy On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Tim wrote: > Ok so I've had the Homer for 2 years and am about to ge

Re: [RBW] Velocity quality

2012-12-06 Thread Doug Van Cleve
TIm, I had a Velocity Razor rim crack at nearly every drive side spoke hole (rear wheel). It never occurred to me to contact them about it, so I rebuilt the rear wheel myself with a FiR rim. After the fact, I mentioned it on the phone to a guy there (don't remember why I even called) and he offe

Re: [RBW] Velocity quality

2012-12-06 Thread Will
Yeah, I never had to deal with Mavic directly so I shouldn't speak of them. When I had Mavic rim failures it was always the builder (usually Excel) taking care of me. In fact I've never had to deal with Velocity directly either. It's always been Rich built Velocity's for me and he's always kept

Re: [RBW] Velocity quality

2012-12-06 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 23:19 -0800, Tim wrote: > LBS guy is recommending a Mavic, I think one of the CXP styles saying > they're much stronger. What should I do??? FWIW, I have had Mavic rims crack, too: MA40, back years ago, and fairly recently a couple of MA3s. However, unlike with the Velocity

Re: [RBW] Velocity quality

2012-12-06 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 23:28 -0800, Toshi Takeuchi wrote: > There have been some bad batches of Velocity rims. I bet if you > contacted Velocity, they would replace the rim free of charge, but you > would have to build up the wheels. Velocity has not only replaced cracked rims free for me, they ha

Re: [RBW] Velocity quality

2012-12-05 Thread Toshi Takeuchi
There have been some bad batches of Velocity rims. I bet if you contacted Velocity, they would replace the rim free of charge, but you would have to build up the wheels. All of my Velocity rims have been good so far. I hope it stays that way. I built my first Mavic CXP wheel. It looks like a r