Originally Posted by will dehne
What are eyelets?
You know how some shoes have metal "rings" where the laces go through, and some just have a hole. An eyelet is the metal thing, and it tends to reinforce the rim. Selects and Race models don't have them, Race Lites and above do. Regardless, unloaded any Bontrager wheel should have held up, unless you are a real clydsdale (and I know you're not), or you clobbered something. If it simply failed as you describe, there was a material or production problem, or a spoke or more were improperly tensioned. I ride Race and Race Lite wheels, and my wife rides Selects. Neither of us have had any problems in over 15k miles, and our roads aren't great. I will admit that I often check tension and true, but it doesn't change hardly at all. I won't tell my wife's weight, but she is lighter than I, and I tip the scale at about 155 lbs. It will be interesting to discover the model.