Originally Posted by
rithem
The last thump in brakes I felt was a dent in brake wall on one of my velocity POS tubular I dented on a cross course, Major (bummer) Tom rims. It was obvious.
That is easily fixed with a bit of hand skill.
I'm always amazed at the quality of the equipment folks are using for cyclo-cross these days. Years ago the cyclocross season in the fall was about finishing off the stuff that was no longer fit for the road. Drop that new road wheel into a pothole and dent it, hammer it back to decent, and if it thumps on pavement it's a cyclocross wheel.
Same with slightly bent frames or forks or otherwise rideable but not fit for the road, components. Rather than toss them into the scrap bin, we rode cyclocross to finish them off. Of course as luck would have it, the most marginal stuff which was barely OK for cyclocross was the stuff that lasted the longest.