Originally Posted by
canam73
I am fairly certain you have made at least one post between now and the last time I contradicted you. Probably more like a hundred. More than a hundred? But oops, I just did it again.
Anyway, if your main point is to avoid Chinese carbon on Chinese New Year, I will support you.
Otherwise, my experiences don't match up with yours. But why should they, I am not a guy living in Taiwan who makes part of his living dealing in taiwanese carbon bike parts.
The real point of my post was about how amazed I was when I peeled off the trashed tire. I fully expected to have to lace in a new rim.
The Chinese carbon clincher bit was a bit of levity but, honestly, if you think Chinese carbon rims sold for a fraction of the price of rims made elsewhere are just as good there is nothing I can say to you, show you or do to prove otherwise.
You are right that I do make a living working with Taiwanese carbon vendors to bring carbon bits to market but I also have experience with their Mainland Chinese counterparts.
It is from that experience I speak.
And I do more than just sell carbon bits. We are involved in design, testing, QC, finishing and whatever else it takes to get the carbon bits into our customer's hands. So not just selling but the actual manufacturing of carbon bike bits as well as alloy, plastic and leather goods.
The real point of this thread was my amazement at just how tough carbon can be. By that I don't just mean these particular rims but what is possible and that all the talk of asplosions, while amusing, really is unfounded.