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Buckled Wheel
After Rob inspired me to do DH with his recent video post, this is what happened to my front wheel going through the 'stairway to heaven' section of Awaba DH. I did a nice flip too!
Also a good review of Stans Tubeless as the tyre held, only lost 5psi after burping and spewing sealant on the ground.
And if anyone is thinking of lacing a wheel themselves it is not as hard as you might think!
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Nice work - hope you had fun aside from that!
Nice job on the wheel, getting the most of out the new bike! I recently converted my Trance to tubeless using Stan's on Mavic rims and Maxxis LUST Ignitor/Larsen. It was a dream, went on with ease, sealed up beautifully and was all around just very easy. I was sceptical that it could not have been that simple, something must go wrong but I’ve been out for a few rides and all seems good (touch wood!).
Maybe next time I would try a ghetto tubeless job but for a first timer, I would highly recommend Stan’s or other similar tubeless conversion kits.
I assume that rim is dead or can it be fixed via re-spoking??
It happened at the end of the day so I had already had heaps of runs. I was lucky to not land on a nice smooth bit in the rock garden and not one of the numerous rocks. Plus a mate then let me have a run on his v10 so it wasnt a loss.
I had a go at bending it back in shape by applying a large force to it (i.e. my foot) and it would not go back in shape. I had another one lying around and just re-laced it and will take the old one to a scrap metal place.
to be worth fixing. Too hard to get even spoke tension.
Glad you didn't get hurt.
Looks like one of mine, perfectly rideable I say.