I just bought these nice dura ace wheels with an alloy brake track but wondering if this is too much wear? I paid $490 for the wheelset with dura ace hubs.
Edit: these are carbon rims but with an alloy brake track if anyone is confused.
by muttbutter
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Don’t the rims have those little dimple dots? Once they are gone, the rims should be replaced.
https://preview.redd.it/lymjuj09ktyg1.png?width=1532&format=png&auto=webp&s=04b7b8d6dbc31eb3913df9967e780e1fb7dfc949
Proper fookt.
I dunno, but I do loves me some S30VšŖš
Wow serious you paid that? Carbon can be had for that money and these look pretty worn mate.
That’s a lot of wear for 500 bucks.
What is that like a 0.3 or 0.5 mm gap? I’d look at it as the previous owners or owner made this wheelset a few grams lighter and got the rim track all bedded in. If you’re not racing ‘cross or regularly riding in wet grit, you’ve got many great miles to go before these wheels are done.
You paid 490 for dura ace hubs and some “here you throw these away”
I’m not sure if there’s a set amount of wear that’s universally true. Like ballpark said, if there’s a dimple, then that’s your wear mark but if it lacks such a thing? I’d worry that a DA rim is already likely on the thinner side to shave grams.
Odds are that when it wears too thin, you’ll develop a crack and not have some sudden catastrophic failure… but the latter isn’t completely out of question either.
Safety and integrity aside, you got ripped off paying for a label.. DA is nice and all but it’s not like you got a set of White, Phil, or DT hubs out of it and sometimes these factory wheels don’t want to work with third party rims so you are stuck looking for the OEM rim to replace it when it’s time. Unless the hubs alone were worth $500 (they aren’t) I would never spend that much on a used aluminum rimmed wheel when you can find something in carbon that’s at least as good and brand new for about double that.
those rims are over half life but still ridable. but 490 is way too much for them in that condition. Hopefully the hubs have been recently serviced
The manufacturer of wheelset or rims should have a specification for what the width is new and when rims need to be replaced. Try finding the specs, often manufacturers keep them on the their website for all their wheels produced.