Mavic rim damage help!!

I need some advise.
I have a small dent on the edge my clincher Mavic Ksyrium SSL wheel
from hitting a pothole. I need to know the best way to get this out?
Any advise?

Thanks

wrote:
Cavallino who? writes:

I need some advise.

I have a small dent on the edge my clincher Mavic Ksyrium SSL wheel
from hitting a pothole. I need to know the best way to get this
out?

Use a 10 inch crescent wrench to grab the rim wall, adjusting the
wrench to just fit the cross section with its nose in the bed of the
rim and carefully bend the dented side wall outward, first in the
center of the ding and then both sides gradually getting it straight.
This is the best tool for that task and usually makes the rim almost
as good as new depending on how carefully you do this.

Good advice and the only reasonably alternative that should be followed
as a friend of mine found out that the cost of a replacement rim for
this wheel is like $150 or more!~ Yow!

bfd wrote:

Good advice and the only reasonably alternative that should be followed
as a friend of mine found out that the cost of a replacement rim for
this wheel is like $150 or more!~ Yow!

The more I hear about Ksyriums, the happier I am that I didn't get them.
Guess I'll stick with my ponderous CXP-33s.

Dave

wrote:

Use a 10 inch crescent wrench to grab the rim wall, adjusting the
wrench to just fit the cross section with its nose in the bed of the
rim and carefully bend the dented side wall outward, first in the
center of the ding and then both sides gradually getting it straight.
This is the best tool for that task and usually makes the rim almost
as good as new depending on how carefully you do this.

I took a fairly big dent out of an older rim using this technique. It
now looks straight to the naked eye but there is still a slight thump
when braking - similar to a badly pinned rim joint. I can live with it
though.

Dave Stallard wrote:

bfd wrote:

Good advice and the only reasonably alternative that should be followed
as a friend of mine found out that the cost of a replacement rim for
this wheel is like $150 or more!~ Yow!


The more I hear about Ksyriums, the happier I am that I didn't get them.
Guess I'll stick with my ponderous CXP-33s.

Dave

Oy, Cxp33's are my race wheels.....Hey thats another excuse for being
so slow

Stan Cox

Dave- The more I hear about Ksyriums, the happier I am that I didn't get
them.
Guess I'll stick with my ponderous CXP-33s. BRBR

Weigh them and you will see that they aren't that 'ponderous'. maybe 200 grams
max(6-7 ounces) and even with a 105 or Veloce hub, superior rear hub to any
modern ksyrium.

Peter Chisholm
Vecchio's Bicicletteria
1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535
http://www.vecchios.com
"Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene"

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:

Dave- The more I hear about Ksyriums, the happier I am that I didn't get
them.
Guess I'll stick with my ponderous CXP-33s. BRBR

Weigh them and you will see that they aren't that 'ponderous'. maybe 200 grams
max(6-7 ounces) and even with a 105 or Veloce hub, superior rear hub to any
modern ksyrium.

But there heavier than Open Pros, right?

Dave

stallard- But there heavier than Open Pros, right? BRBR

yep but we are talking grams difference, 20 or 30.

Peter Chisholm
Vecchio's Bicicletteria
1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535
http://www.vecchios.com
"Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene"

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:

stallard- But there heavier than Open Pros, right? BRBR

yep but we are talking grams difference, 20 or 30.

Peter Chisholm
Vecchio's Bicicletteria
1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535
http://www.vecchios.com
"Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene"

Mavic claims 470 grams for a CXP-33 and 425 for an Open Pro.
Was 200 a typo? I doubt if any standard clincher rims are
anywhere near that light.

Dave Lehnen

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:40:20 -0700, bfd wrote:

Good advice and the only reasonably alternative that should be followed as
a friend of mine found out that the cost of a replacement rim for this
wheel is like $150 or more!~ Yow!

What? For a _rim_? This is the real problem with boutique wheels.

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David L. Johnson

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