Originally Posted by Nessism
The hard anodized Mavic rims are denoted with CD in the name. For example, MA3 CD. The regular, more common MA3 has a thin cosmetic anodizing which is not as damaging to the aluminum as the thicker CD anodizing.
I'm convinced that it's not the degree of anodizing that's the root cause of most MA3 failures, it's the cross section. In other words, it's just a sub-par design with not enough material at the spoke bed. But that's just speculation/hearsay, as I have no personal experience with these rims.
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