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04-03-14, 06:11 AM

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seely

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Originally Posted by brawlo

seely, I don't remember where the rims were made. I debadged them when I got them, which as it turns out was just over 3 years ago, not 18mths (wow a whole year went by in there somewhere!). The wheelset was a Velocity build with Ultegra hubs because at the time they had run out of their own hubs. The rims are the original non-tubeless model. The crack are hard to see unless you get the light at the right angle. They may have been there well before, and I just couldn't see them because I had no need to inspect the rim so closely. Pics of the 3 worst cracks are below, there's another 2 that are visible and they're spread right around the rim.

At 3 years old there is definitely a pretty good possibility of the rims being Australian made. It was before my time here, but I have heard that some of our Australian extrusions had some inconsistencies. Since switching to a US extruder with a long history of making bike rim extrusions, it seems like we've cleared any issues up. I'm going to say if the wheels are on Ultegra hubs, however, its likely not our in-house build but that doesn't mean it wasn't a competent build, and frankly, as long as it wasn't vastly over tensioned I wouldn't expect a failure like that from a poor build.

It sounds like you're pretty well set on the build, but if there's anything we can do to get you back on a Velocity rim, let me know. seely [at] velocityusa [dot] com

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