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"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice,
shame on me. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mike, you could also have mentioned how you, as a dealer, would react if a certain product exhibited a higher than average failure rate. I'm sure you don't fancy dealing with customers who come in saying, "I haven't had this very long, and look what happened." You would stop stocking the product. Leo: Thanks for pointing that out. See, stay long enough in a newsgroup and people answer for you, better than you would have done yourself! But to be sure, dealers are often frustrated when calling a company about the 3rd or 4th time you've seen something, and hearing "Well, that's the first time we've heard of that." Fortunately, after you've been around a while and cultivated relationships, you tend to get the real story, rather than the line people are told so as not to alarm dealers. It's all in how you respond to things. If a dealer sees a particular issue and calls up the company, yells at them that the sky is falling and how can they make such crappy product... yeah, the company is going to assume they're not the best people to say "Yes, we've had some issues with that, we're working on a solution, here's what you might try in the meantime." --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA |
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Zog The Undeniable wrote: Michael Press wrote: Cracking like that should never happen. All I can say is that companies with a grip on the market prefer to sell rims that break. Making a light rim that does not break at the spoke hole is well understood. Good rims have been made for decades. There is no manufacturing-engineering reason for making inferior rims. The reason to make inferior rims is so that folks buy more rims at inflated prices. Applying Occam's Razor, it's more likely to be incompetent design. They just didn't put enough metal in the right place and/or didn't test thoroughly. Aren't these the same Ritchey wheels Nashbar/Supergo were selling for 60+% off a few months ago? Perhaps now we know why...... |
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, "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote: There is no manufacturing-engineering reason for making inferior rims. The reason to make inferior rims is so that folks buy more rims at inflated prices. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Even the dumbest bicycle component company isn't stupid enough to think that people are likely to pay $$$ to replace equipment that failed before its time with more from the same company. Sure, some people may, but a whole lot of people are going to be buying something from a competing company. The only people who would benefit from making product that consistently failed earlier than it should would be those with a near-monopoly, and that doesn't exist in the wheel-goods section of the marketplace. Lots and lots and lots of options. And no, there's not a conspiracy among the various companies to all make shoddy product so they sell more. That's giving them way too much credit. --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReactionBicycles.com "Michael Press" wrote in message ... In article .com, wrote: I bought a set of brand new Ritchey Zero Comp road wheels, and the rear developed cracks around the spoke holes within a few months. I did maybe about 50% of my milage on these wheels. A photo is here : http://www.midweekclub.com/temp/rimcrack.jpg About half the spoke holes for the drive side spokes have cracks like these. The rims have a thin silver anodizing and there are no rim eyelets. The rim is an offset design, to reduce the left side/right side tension difference. I didn't mess with the spoke tensions until the spokes became very loose and I had to retension the wheel myself. Is there an explanation of why this happened ? and what rim should I replace it with ? Cracking like that should never happen. All I can say is that companies with a grip on the market prefer to sell rims that break. Making a light rim that does not break at the spoke hole is well understood. Good rims have been made for decades. There is no manufacturing-engineering reason for making inferior rims. The reason to make inferior rims is so that folks buy more rims at inflated prices. I do not seek conspiracies. Inferior goods at inflated prices can, for instance, be the result of a highly leveraged buy-out by people who do not know, or care, anything about the manufacturer they bought. All they know is getting money. One way is to make the products more cheaply, and consequently less well. As you say, a manufacturer making bad products, or products selling for much more than they are intrinsically worth, will eventually fail; but how long does it take? Mavic is still making money. -- Michael Press |
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Michael Press writes:
I bought a set of brand new Ritchey Zero Comp road wheels, and the rear developed cracks around the spoke holes within a few months. I did maybe about 50% of my mileage on these wheels. A photo is here : http://www.midweekclub.com/temp/rimcrack.jpg About half the spoke holes for the drive side spokes have cracks like these. The rims have a thin silver anodizing and there are no rim eyelets. The rim is an offset design, to reduce the left side/right side tension difference. I didn't mess with the spoke tensions until the spokes became very loose and I had to re-tension the wheel myself. Is there an explanation of why this happened? and what rim should I replace it with? Cracking like that should never happen. All I can say is that companies with a grip on the market prefer to sell rims that break. Making a light rim that does not break at the spoke hole is well understood. Good rims have been made for decades. There is no manufacturing-engineering reason for making inferior rims. The reason to make inferior rims is so that folks buy more rims at inflated prices. It doesn't seem to be a cost reason either because socketed rims cost less than most rims that replaced them. That sockets were necessary was discovered 50 years ago when most major manufacturers used sockets in their tubular rims and then offered rims like the MA-2 when clinchers became the mainstream. I was greatly disappointed when hard anodized rims showed up again when socketed rims were discontinued with a big splash from Mavic about how welded, machined, anodized rims were improving bicycling. So here we are discussing cracked rims and reduced spoke tension, things that weren't issues prior to all these NEW rims. Jobst Brandt |
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"G.T." wrote in message ... jim beam wrote: wrote: I bought a set of brand new Ritchey Zero Comp road wheels, and the rear developed cracks around the spoke holes within a few months. I did maybe about 50% of my milage on these wheels. A photo is here : http://www.midweekclub.com/temp/rimcrack.jpg About half the spoke holes for the drive side spokes have cracks like these. The rims have a thin silver anodizing and there are no rim eyelets. The rim is an offset design, to reduce the left side/right side tension difference. I didn't mess with the spoke tensions until the spokes became very loose and I had to retension the wheel myself. Is there an explanation of why this happened ? and what rim should I replace it with ? -Amit when you retensioned, what tension level did you use? did you use a tensiometer? or "tension as high as the rim will bear"? bottom line, that looks like classic over-tension. there is no reason to exceed the spoke tension specified by the rim manufacturer. And just how slack would he have to run his spokes to avoid this? Slack enough that he would constantly be straightening his wheels due to poor spoke tension? It's an off-center rim on a pre-built wheel. Ritchey is the builder, and you would think it knows what tension to use on its own rim. If it is over-tensioning, then it is not the OP's fault. Really, though, I remember reports years ago about these rims cracking. I think this problem is old news. -- Jay Beattie. |
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Ravi who? writes:
I bought a set of brand new Ritchey Zero Comp road wheels, and the rear developed cracks around the spoke holes within a few months. I did maybe about 50% of my mileage on these wheels. Your riding style - (spin or mash), kind of roads you ride etc. can explain this. Also, spoke count is a factor. Also, you say you tensioned it when it came loose - at that time you didn't any cracks did you? I wonder why it became loose in the first place - was it under-tensioned when you bought it? Or after you hit some pot hole or something? How true was the wheel when you bought it? How often did you have to true it before you got the point to notice that the spokes were loose... Oh great. Here we are back at the victim is at fault. Maybe you can explain how gear selection affects rim cracking considering that torque pulses are smaller the higher the gear used. Recall that socketed rims were used on roads in the Alps before they were paved and European cities had many cobble stone streets. We did not have rim cracking then so how do you suggest we restrict our bicycling to bow to appease the rim gods. I hope you are aware that the radial load of the loaded bicycle coasting along on a road is the highest stress to which rims are subjected. As stated by previous posters, each rim has a specific tension, exceeding that tension is a sure way of cracking the rims. You can measure the tension (or get LBS to do it) and see if it is beyond the specifications for that rim. Oh! And how did someone arrive at that "correct" tension? As I said, with socketed rims, wheels were tensioned to the limit of rim hoop compression. We didn't have no steenkin cracks. Why do you appoint yourself as apologist for the manufacturers who are cheating their market by leaving out essential rim components? Jobst Brandt |
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There is no manufacturing-engineering reason for making inferior rims. The reason to make inferior rims is so that folks buy more rims at inflated prices. Mike Jacoubowsky wrote: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Even the dumbest bicycle component company isn't stupid enough to think that people are likely to pay $$$ to replace equipment that failed before its time with more from the same company. Sure, some people may, but a whole lot of people are going to be buying something from a competing company. The only people who would benefit from making product that consistently failed earlier than it should would be those with a near-monopoly, and that doesn't exist in the wheel-goods section of the marketplace. Lots and lots and lots of options. And no, there's not a conspiracy among the various companies to all make shoddy product so they sell more. That's giving them way too much credit. I had an Italian manufacturer visit here in early December. I showed him one of his 1970 saddles on the bike I ride every day. He looked me right in the eye and said "If we had kept making things that lasted that long we would be out of business". Direct quote, take it as you will. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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A Muzi wrote: wrote: There is no manufacturing-engineering reason for making inferior rims. The reason to make inferior rims is so that folks buy more rims at inflated prices. Mike Jacoubowsky wrote: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Even the dumbest bicycle component company isn't stupid enough to think that people are likely to pay $$$ to replace equipment that failed before its time with more from the same company. Sure, some people may, but a whole lot of people are going to be buying something from a competing company. The only people who would benefit from making product that consistently failed earlier than it should would be those with a near-monopoly, and that doesn't exist in the wheel-goods section of the marketplace. Lots and lots and lots of options. And no, there's not a conspiracy among the various companies to all make shoddy product so they sell more. That's giving them way too much credit. I had an Italian manufacturer visit here in early December. I showed him one of his 1970 saddles on the bike I ride every day. He looked me right in the eye and said "If we had kept making things that lasted that long we would be out of business". Direct quote, take it as you will. Wow, that's right to the point. Most of the newer stuff doesn't last that long, but most people don't care 'cuz the marketing machinery does it's level best to make you feel anything more than 3-4 years old is hopelessly outdated anyway. |
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