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Mr. Newbiker

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Thanks guys. I really love the wireless shifting, its amazing. Carbon rim upgrade not as noticeable as the shifting difference, but nice nevertheless.
Any of you guys ride wireless shifting?
 

Mr. Newbiker

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Just a random comment non emtb related. I just bought an industry 9 wheelset for a trek marlin 7 gen 3. The upgrades on that frame are far more than its worth but the bike is dear to me. Should’ve bought a second emtb.
 

Mr. Newbiker

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Just a random comment non emtb related. I just bought an industry 9 wheelset for a trek marlin 7 gen 3. The upgrades on that frame are far more than its worth but the bike is dear to me. Should’ve bought a second emtb.
The industry 9 wheelset is awesome. Worth it.
 

KnollyBro

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The industry 9 wheelset is awesome. Worth it.
I have heard that about carbon rims. Call me insensitive or a little slow but when I have ridden carbon rims, I am still not able to express in words to describe the difference. You sound like you are sold on them. What have you noticed in particular?
 
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Mr. Newbiker

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That was a good one. About the bank account.

For starters, the engagement on the Hydra hub is phenomenal, in a good way. It’s amazing for technical terrain. About the wheels themselves, I have noticed that they are more precise, they do not feel like the limp noodles my old wheelset did (in retrospect.) they have not have the same problems with spokes bending/loosening on hard impacts as the alloy wheels did. And last of all, a hard impact on a sharp rock (recent ride) did not even damage the rim, but I distinctly felt the tire crunch between the rim and the rock. And no flat either, running tubeless. I’m confident that alloy rim would have been bent, maybe not ruined. These I-9 rims came completely tubeless ready, flawlessly so.

I believe it is a testament to carbon fiber rims that many manufacturers offer lifetime warranty on the carbon fiber rims, and up to two year warranty only on alloy rims.
 
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Mr. Newbiker

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I believe a good set of alloy rims would feel very nice as well. Certainly more susceptible to bending Upon sharp impacts than carbon.
 
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KnollyBro

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I believe a good set of alloy rims would feel very nice as well. Certainly more susceptible to bending Upon sharp impacts than carbon.
Maybe that is it. I have used DT Swiss 511 rims for years along with Cushcore and only noticed the occasional rear rim ding but I can't say I notice any performance difference using a carbon rim with my setup and tire pressure (F18/R21 @ 185 lbs). Then again, I treat my bikes as an additional bank account so the latest and greatest will always interest me.
 

whitymon

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I really like the wolftooth waveform, I tested countless pedal from top tier, really waste lots of money, but they are just awesome on my feet where DMR vault was just good.

The problem with Carbon wheel is that they lack compliance to me, especially vertical compliance and flex. True they are sharp but we are also talking about tiny differences and not everyone can feel them, if you do not race well this is also not as important. At the very least the rim should be pretty solid but can mark easily on side which I am not liking that much.

People usually try to compare the stock AL wheel with really expensive C ones which is not fair at all, mostly because of poor hub too. I have expensive, to me alloy wheel and the difference is really huge from stock, especially if you have a great hub.

Last thing, again to me, you need to think as a whole, from compliance to stiffness and what you feel/like/enjoy. I really like, for enduro, either a carbon/steel frame with alloy wheel or a alloy frame with carbon rim.

Hope you changed the tyres, I really think they were worst than I could have imagined on my trail :D
 

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