Rim - MAVIC (for sure); MA-2 (unsure, have to look)

Tape - VELOX

Tube - Vittoria

Installation - yes, done very carefully

Tires - Challenge Parigi-Roubaix

These failures were not punctures. I almost wish they had been. That was expected but never happened.

Perhaps a different rim tape might have helped. That such a specialty item and extra-special care are needed and the seemingly random nature of the failures does not bode well for these. I no longer trust them and won't be repairing either.


I bought this pair of wheels in about 1985 from Performance Bikes. After all these decades, they are beginning to show their age but are still going strong. I have never had to do any maintenance or truing on them.