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Originally Posted by kayceeee
im thinking of getting a pair of 38mm carbons from china as well, how do you like them?
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well. to be honest i've had a few problems with them. its a hit and miss i guess. the guy i bought them off from has had 4 others of the same wheels but different depth and has had no problems so far.
as for my wheels. i've had spokes come off at the wrong time wrong event. twice happened during crit race. the spoke nipples came out and went into the wheels. i had to take out the tires, tubes and tire liners to take out the nipple out of the rim. so what i did was i took out all the spokes one at a time to apply lock tight into the nipples so the spokes will never come out again.
so far i've hadn't had a problem yet since then. i've gone down seymour at a blazing 70+km/hr - ran over few big potholes - fast over railroad tracks. i checked the spoke tension with spoke tension gauge on every single spoke every few rides and it seems to be holding fine and tensions are good.
so yah. i guess the "you get what you pay for" applies here. haha. eventually i will get a higher end wheelset. dont know when (for sure not soon) but at least i've tried the lower end wheelset so i got something to compare to someday.
maybe when you buy the wheels, quickly go to a wheel shop and ask to apply lock tight on the nipples? haha. maybe that'll prevent anything related to what happened to mine. GL
