Imagine a metal alloy that flexes under load... Now imagine that this alloy is coated with a non-structural material that is less flexible under certain conditions. What would be the result?


A problem! Yes.


A waranry issue? Yes, it should be.


A crisis? Unlikely...


Rims with eyelets? Worth blaming for the all the ills of the world, in caps? Are you aware that the ones which connected through to the glue surface of tubular rims were a big improvement over the single washers used previously, which distributed the stress over the inside of the rim.

Do you want to see my single material un-eyeleted Campagnolo Shamal wheelset with stress cracks at lots of spoke holes, which have lasted 4 more years since I bought them? They will presumably fail at some point, but more likely to be at individual spoke holes, rather than a complete catastrophic failure. Have you blown spokes through a rim? I did, two separate times testing wheels. Niether wheel disappeared in a puff of smoke...


"I purposely got black coating. Bare Alu soon looks like crap and will NOT last as long." Black anodizing, (if that is what you are refering to), is not "stronger" than clear anodizing. And looks? Now there's an objective standard...


Cheers all, Eric

Temps are dropping - 88° after local high of 95. If I don't make it back- Probably one of those ancient eyeletted rims exploded and I died in the fireball.