Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
Yay....in general I don't bother keeping up with Bontrager wheels after whitnessing the multitudes of rims cracking and spoke failures.....IMHO due to paired spoke designs. I would be interested if they could provide a wheel that competes with Zipp, that is cheaper and more durable not using paired spoke then that would be interesting.....
.....maybe interesting is a strong word......meh.
Exactly how many have you witnessed? I've put thousands of miles on 2 sets of bontrager race x lites on harsh pennsylvania roads and have had 0 problems. I've also seen problems with several different kinds of wheels including the almighty zipps. All tyoes of wheels can break
That said I probably wouldn't buy a set of paired spoked wheels again, but it's not like seeing cracking bonty's are a common occurance.