Easton Wheels

Anyone out there have experience with Easton/Velomax wheelsets? Are
they durable, good bearings, stay true, tensioned well, etc.? I'm
wondering specifically about the Circuit wheelset.

jim wrote:
Anyone out there have experience with Easton/Velomax wheelsets? Are
they durable, good bearings, stay true, tensioned well, etc.? I'm
wondering specifically about the Circuit wheelset.

Thought someone did some stiffness or deflection tests (or something)
and the results were posted here and the Circuits were at the very
bottom of the heap.

These are low end "boutique" wheels. Which means they will be
expensive to repair and will fail more frequently than high end
"boutique" wheels. Which, according to some posters here, spells
trouble.

Don't know how problematic the stiffness issue (or whatever) would be.

D'ohBoy

As always, YMMV and this "information" is worth what you paid for it.

On 3 Aug 2006 11:13:03 -0700, "D'ohBoy" wrote:


jim wrote:
Anyone out there have experience with Easton/Velomax wheelsets? Are
they durable, good bearings, stay true, tensioned well, etc.? I'm
wondering specifically about the Circuit wheelset.

Thought someone did some stiffness or deflection tests (or something)
and the results were posted here and the Circuits were at the very
bottom of the heap.

These are low end "boutique" wheels. Which means they will be
expensive to repair and will fail more frequently than high end
"boutique" wheels. Which, according to some posters here, spells
trouble.

Don't know how problematic the stiffness issue (or whatever) would be.

D'ohBoy

As always, YMMV and this "information" is worth what you paid for it.

Dear Jim & D'oh,

Here's Damon Rinard's wheel stiffness testing explanation:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/wheel/index.htm

Here are some details from the enormous set of wheels that he tested:

#064 Mavic MA2 36-spoke front 1.50
#065 Mavic MA2 36-spoke rear rh 2.01

#002 Mavic MA2 32-spoke front 1.91
#004 Mavic MA2 32-spoke rear rh 2.62

#133 Velomax Orion 24-spoke front 2.00
#134 Velomax Orion 28-spoke rear rh 3.07

#139 Velomax Circuit 24-spoke front 2.49
#140 Velomax Circuit 28-spoke rear rh 2.22

#131 Velomax Ascent 18-spoke front 2.57
#132 Velomax Ascent 24-spoke rear rh 3.07

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/wheel/data.htm

For lateral rim deflection, the number of spokes appears to be more
important than the rim brand.

I love testing like this, but the difference in question doesn't look
very important.

The Velomax Orion front deflected less than a tenth of a millimeter
more than a Mavic MA2 front with 33% more spokes.

A tenth of a millimeter is 0.004 inches. That's about the thickness of
a dollar bill or four human hairs.

While it might affect steel-spoke tension in some interesting way,
it's unlikely that any rider can tell whether his wheel deflects an
extra four hairs while cornering.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

D'ohBoy a écrit :
jim wrote:

Anyone out there have experience with Easton/Velomax wheelsets? Are
they durable, good bearings, stay true, tensioned well, etc.? I'm
wondering specifically about the Circuit wheelset.


Thought someone did some stiffness or deflection tests (or something)
and the results were posted here and the Circuits were at the very
bottom of the heap.

These are low end "boutique" wheels. Which means they will be
expensive to repair and will fail more frequently than high end
"boutique" wheels. Which, according to some posters here, spells
trouble.

Don't know how problematic the stiffness issue (or whatever) would be.

D'ohBoy

As always, YMMV and this "information" is worth what you paid for it.


Hey, I hear there's this nice little booteek in Boulder, if you're in
that neioghborhood, run by some guy Peter. If you can't get there,
he'll sell you wheels in a box, delivered really quickly.
:-)

--

Sandy
Verneuil-sur-Seine FR
--
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Une silhouette profilée mauve fluo dévale
à soixante-dix à l'heure : c'est du vélo.
Deux lycéennes côte à côte traversent
un pont à Bruges : c'est de la bicyclette.
-Delerm, P.