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Old 11-12-11, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by chandltp
I'm just waiting until I use up all my steel rims so I can go to my MTB with aluminium rims in the winter. The steel rims are bad in the dry, and even worse in the wet.
I have steel rims on my old Panasonic that I use for dry-weather commuting. People say that in wet weather steel rims have poor braking, but this just simply isn't true.

In wet weather steel rims have no braking.

My steel rims get beyond scary if I so much as ride through a short patch of dewey grass. Fred Flintstone has better braking in his car. Upgrading my rims on this bike is on my winter project list if I can put the scratch together to do it.

Thankfully my winter bike has alloy rims.
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