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ilovecycling 09-14-11 09:45 PM


Originally Posted by patentcad (Post 13227844)
This is the kind of technical insight we all come to BF for.

It does look like crap. I'm sure it works like it's supposed to, but it looks like something a 3rd grader put together with a glue stick. You love your bike schwag don't you?

rangerdavid 09-15-11 05:15 AM


Originally Posted by ilovecycling (Post 13228183)
You love your bike schwag don't you?


who doesn't??

zatopek 09-15-11 05:26 AM

Had I the requisite disposable income, I'd buy me some Mad Fiber wheels right quick! I read something, somewhere, about the clincher using an aluminum tire bed to help dissipate braking heat so any heat build up on long descents would not result in the tire bed deforming with catastrophic results.

patentcad 09-15-11 06:56 AM


Originally Posted by ilovecycling (Post 13228183)
I'm sure it works like it's supposed to

Then it's ok by me.

patentcad 09-15-11 06:56 AM


Originally Posted by zatopek (Post 13228977)
would not result in the tire bed deforming with catastrophic results.

That's always nice.

zigmeister 09-15-11 07:44 AM

Vaporware

Inertianinja 09-15-11 10:02 AM


Originally Posted by zigmeister (Post 13229352)
Vaporware

it's all marketing anyway.

patentcad 09-15-11 10:09 AM


Originally Posted by zigmeister (Post 13229352)
Vaporware

Mad Vaporware in fact.

banerjek 09-15-11 10:25 AM


Originally Posted by Ultraslide (Post 13224059)
Indeed. Why are wealth and taste so often inversely proportional?

People with dough can afford drugs.

http://www.totaltalknonsense.com/wp/...ainOnDrugs.jpg

garciawork 09-15-11 10:55 AM

Tubeless ready... do want.

rat fink 09-15-11 11:45 AM

Am I the only one who loves these things, looks and all? Maybe it's the engineer in me, but I think these are some of the best designed wheels out there. A lot of light weight wheel aren't very stiff. These are light, stiff, strong, and reasonable priced.


Originally Posted by danvuquoc (Post 13224402)
Remove madfiber sticker, I doubt anyone will know what they are with the wheels moving.

Actually, aside from aero/trispokes, they are probably the most easily recognizable road bike wheel out there.

Reynolds 09-15-11 12:43 PM

Just saw the photos. Good thing is they are light and seem to never come out of true, bad thing is they cost $3,000 and if they ever come out of true you have to toss them and buy new ones.


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