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Old 03-11-11 | 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bcubed
"I prefer rims to discs because they discourage me from getting lazy about wheel truing, which I suspect is what would happen if I ran discs."
Once I dumped the junk wheels my hybrid came with and built my own, I ran the next 16,000 miles, 35% of it over gravel road which was quite rough at times, without touching them. Both wheels have now been replaced for other reasons, but they sit in my garage still dead true, or within 1mm or so. I can't see any wobble in them at all, anyway. So I'm not sure it makes that much difference, at least if you're running sturdy wheels. My current set has about 6000 miles on them and I've never touched them, and they're dead true too.
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