TimothyH

Anyone have experience with Industry Nine gravel wheels?

I'm probably not going to buy them but even so, I'd like to hear feedback from anyone who has them, specifically the Ultralight CX 240.


-Tim-

Marcus_Ti

Not their wheels...OTOH I have heard their hubs. They are loud. They're blingy....but they're really loud.


For the money...I'd rather get Onyx hubs. Just as blingy, MUSA...but dead silent ( ). Thinking of getting a second wheelset myself, in part so I have some winter snow/ice tires at the ready.

Chris(NJ)

Not the 240, but I have the Ultralite 235 CX. I've done cross races, mid range gravel events w/ lots of climbing, road rides and light mountain biking on them. I have absolutely no complaints.

TimothyH

Thanks!

Care to say how long you have had them or how many miles?


-Tim-

Chris(NJ)

I've had them since April or May. Mileage is probably 7-800? Not really sure since I don't remember to track all of my rides. I'm running WTB Riddlers (700x37) and Vittoria Torreno Mix (700x38) for sloppy conditions. Mid to high 30s tire pressure depending on what and where I'm riding.
I've ridden them at two different singletrack trails. Hartshorne woods and Allaire State park. Both lack rocks minus the random few thrown in there. Decent amount of roots but otherwise packed/loose/sandy conditions. I've had a couple root strikes on them and one drop off a short ledge that let me catch a good rim strike. No damage to the rim and didn't burp the tire either on any occasion.
That's about as hard as I've pushed them since anything more and I'm grabbing my mountain bike.

Metieval

Salsa sponsored rider Jay Petervary rides them on his warbird v4 prototype I think. or at least iNine wheels.
I know he rode the warbird v4 prototype in Kyrgyzstan not sure it what wheels it was on.

I am kind of a sucker for the colored spokes, but...... starting at $2300... and then start adding $ for colored spokes, ouch

Edit: well gee Jay is in the video on the iNine page... lol guess I am not bringing anything new here.

TimothyH

Yeah, that's how I found out about the wheels and became interested. I saw his Warbird prototype on Gravel Cyclists and then linked to the I9 wheels from there.

For those who haven't seen the video, it is worth watching just to see him true a wheel.



-Tim-

Metieval

the best part, is when he says "Perfect!" lol

TimothyH

Ha ha, yeah. I would totally hire that guy where I work.

tangerineowl

You have expensive tastes Timothy.

For that price you could build up two 1220gm wheelsets using a similar spec china rim (CarbonFan/XMCarbonSpeed etc.) and Carbon-Ti hubs with Sapim spokes and brass nipples.

TimothyH

1220 grams has my attention. This is good info. Thanks.

I'm not about spending money for money's sake. Then again, I don't spend money on many of things normal people don't give a second thought to.

To be honest, the proprietary spokes on the i9 wheels don't thrill me and finding someone I trust to service wheels here in Atlanta has been a challenge. I'd rather have something more mainstream and standardized.

American Classic RACE 29 wheels are still being good to me. The question was more thinking out loud than anything else.


-Tim-

Marcus_Ti

I've been seeing threads here on BF, and Weight Weenies, and on RBR about cheap carbon rims.wheels from China for years now....catch being well:

A) They take a month to get here

B) Shipping here adds up, also tariffs (now)

C) In the event of RMA you may well be needing to send the wheels back to China....and that is going to cost you an arm and a leg...and the exchange will take 2 months (month there, month back)

You also read various horror stories of outright QA/QC blunders right out of the box. Go look up the Chinese Carbon Fiber Wheels threads on any forum and you'll see stories.


Some like say Light Bicycle have a USA distributor to cut out those annoyances...I'm window shopping them ATM: https://us.lightbicycle.com/ which are nice as their wheels come with either i9 or Onyx hubs...which are both very nice options

Also at the $1K pricepoint, you can get ProWheelbuilder.com signature carbon hoops with Bitex hubs. Bitex are decent cartridge bearing hubs...not as nice as i9 or Onyx by a long shot--but they keep the cost down. Or you can spring for Whites.

TimothyH

I know Richard who owns Pro Wheel Builder.

They are about an hour away from me and he is the only one I let touch my wheels.

He diagnosed and repaired the hub on my AC RACE 29's when I had all the shifting problems.


-Tim-