Are $1700 carbon MTB wheels really worth it? High Low Ep 6 

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Loving the content! Though I think channel should really be called “Evan’s wheel spoking saga.”

Not only do the carbon wheels have the lifetime warranty, they'll actually stay straight, unlike the alluminium wheels... 😬

This is a low/high bike done right really been enjoying the series.

The high bike is 5% faster but costs nearly 373% more. Good value!

Congrats on 30k Evan! This series has exploded your channel! 👍🏼 Well done. How long does it take you to spoke wheels now?

This is what pink bike should have done! You have done a great job!

Holy crap Evan. You've gained 10k subs since I started watching you, about a month and a half ago. Props to you, your series is definitely the obvious choice for quality and entertainment.

Great video and series! Informative, entertaining and well done. I upgraded my bike with a set of NOBL wheels with ONYX vesper hubs last year and I love them. If you can afford it, I highly recommend.

I really appreciate your commitment to staying under budget on the low bike. 👍

OMG YESSSS, Killing it once again, i swear i was obsessing abou the Nobl TR32s. this is legit the only video on youtube reviewing them properly. ABSOLUTE FIRE AS USUAL!!

This is the best mtb series rn on youtube

Evan your videos never disappoint they make me want to keep watching and I think I've watched a couple of them like ten times. Keep up the great work.

You came a long way but damm congrats on your 30K subs, your low vs high series is going great keep up the good work.

Great job man, keep up the good work :)

loving the inspiration from donut media with high low,ive really been thinking about this ideea

Your content is amazing bro, Im a fan of yours from the Philippines!!

You really helped me for my journey from a newbie to experienced. Thank you

congrats 30k subs 🤯✨🥳. this channel is growing so fast

Just what the bike community content we need. Been living these vids Cheers

Gotta say I love your Chanel man got all the great content I need

congrats on 30k evan! you deserve it

These vids are really well made, even without considering you do everything yourself.

Freakin awesome content, Evan! When this one ends, do another one!!

Awesome video series! Such an underrated channel!

Nice way of explaining that the expensive boost hubs can be converted with only a little headache. Even your 'cheap' option is out of my price range but I love what you do man. Keep it up.

Just keeps gettin better Evan! Thanks for keeping us entertained. As an AZ rider I laughed about the berms or lack there of lol!

Your content is really fun to watch. Did you have a bike mechanic background? I really appreciate this series of upgrade videos and the cost to performance ratios.

How fitting, I ordered a set of NOBL TR32 sine curve carbon rims on Industry 9 Hydra's early this month. They're getting built soon so I look forward to this upgrade. Your review made the purchase even more reassuring. High bike wins again!

maybe I just found my new favorite mtb channel. keep up the good content mr. :))

my favuorite mtb series on youtube atm!

Love these videos keep the good content up

30k subscribers! Wow congratulations!

Man I love this series

I love this has a long time donut media fan and mountain biker this is great i used to think up to speed on mtb would work great !

Best one yet! 29er conversion was awesome!

very nice, impressed by the weight difference considering it's a coil on the highbike !

Best series! Love every episode

New subscriber here man. Very informative!

Love the “I feel like Jeff Kendall Weed” at the top of the climb.

Cool vid. I think the Tires should be "controlled" - i.e. the same - and not change because now you have two variables adding up. It would be more interesting if you were to "redo" the loops, this time with the DC tires on the Nobls and the 3C tires one the "DIY" Spanks, to see what % of that initial run difference was - perhaps - because of the tires. The $ difference between DC/3C is perhaps the smallest in this test so far, and most likely even "low-end" spenders that can justify $70 for DC tires , most likely can do $85 for 3C tires.

Nice content bro, we all need this!

i love all the upgrades for the bikes. it tell me more about upgrades

I wouldn't necessarily say that the low bike has "cheap" components. To me, cheap has a connotation of garbage/low quality. The products that you put on the low bike are quality products. I would say that the low bike has "less expensive" components. Keep up the good work!!!!

i have both. i chose carbon for my local trails that require a lot of pedaling and has lots of short punchy climbs. If there were more downhill runs the alloy wheels would've been fine. The carbon wheels were also the best upgrade over anything else on my bike. it didn't feel that significant in a driveway test at first, but on the trail it's just completely mindblowing how different it feels. I went with the newer roval control carbon with dt350 hubs - awesome wheels (although no lifetime warranty, 2 years only).

Great series Evan, saw bikesonline at sea otter and had to let them know too

Fellow rider here in the Phoenix area (Mesa). Hope to see you out at Hawes some day! Your content is really good.

No. I had a set of wheels built for my trek rail ebike. Spank 359 vibrocore rims and industry 9 hydra hubs. I could of done carbon but I’m very happy with the spank. I did have carbon wheelset on my old ebike but the spank just so much more comfortable to ride. Really liking this series. Good work.👍

great video ,i love your channel

Nice video again been following you a long time now.

love your work mate

Some parts I like: Michelin Wild Enduro, great transition, especially on 30mm rims, but work really good on 23mm too, but 30 it's great, fakies get a lot smoother, great mud clearance, side knobs are like a mud tyre, mid rolls fast. There are two compounds for both version, for both front and rear. Gum-X3D is less sticky, MagiX- 2 is super sticky. These tyres have a much more stable feeling than High Roller 2, Shorty, I know I had 2.3, and these are 2.40 but that a lone is not the reason for it. the side knobs, great thread pattern, great combo with the transitioning knobs, and the side knobs, the side knobs are supportive, squirm less. Just by looking and feeling them by hand you it might look like it could do much difference, but I see the knobs have a very different design. all of it shows really well while riding. track stands got a lot easier, due the great thread pattern and well engineered knobs. There is a new version of the Wild Enduro that is an addition, not an replacement, it's meant to be the competition tyre, it has the yellow and blue Michelin logo. Brakes: I have Formula Cura 4, I've only had one ride on them so far, but I like them, I would put them on both a low budget build and pricy build, if I had I went for hydraulic on both. it can be serviced, all parts are aluminium. lever blade feels like Shimano. Mineral oil, so not DOT toxic corrosive, paint eating. Cheap upgrades for any bike: STZY tubeless valves: can use a mini ratchet to tighten from the bottom of the valve, you can clean it with poking something through, so you don't need a sealant eating solvent. There are several colours, and you can buy the caps in different colours too, so you can customize it well. They come n 44mm or 60mm, I went for 44mm, works well with most rims, for example DT Swiss FR560 and H552. The valve cover has a valve core tool.

Great vid! The biggest upgrade though may have been the Minions.

Hey, you mentioned that double butted spokes are thinner in the middle to save weight. This is true to some extent but the weight savings are miniscule and only part of the reason to use these spokes. The most important difference is in their compliance. A wheel with double butted spokes has slightly more give on hard hits so it retains tension better. That being said straight gauge 2mm spokes are perfectly good for any application if you don't want to spend too much. And standard stainless is about a third of the price of colored spokes.

Cant wait for the handlebars! hahaha i recently upgrade a not so expensive deity bars and stem on my budget bike.

Noice he is giving credit to donut media! Benn watching both channels for a long time! Great progress

NOBL wheels are great. I just got a new set of them last week for my gravel bike. They're the HR35 rims with BERD spokes and i9 1/1 hubs. I have a set of BERD TR30 wheels with i9 1/1 hubs on my mountain bike and despite being a 29er, it's so much more flickable than my previous bike with 27.5" wheels was because of the huge drop in weight. BERD spokes are expensive as hell but they're price competitive with other carbon wheelsets. The full set of TR30 wheels I bought cost me $1600 and they're way stronger and lighter than the NOBL wheels you bought for this video but they don't have a lifetime warranty or silent Onyx hubs.

I got the tr32’s with dt180 Hubs on my v10. Love ‘em!

Kudos for giving props to Doughnut that creates the Hi Lo concept

Really nice video and great editing This series is pure fun keep going man 🤙🏼 Ps: I appreciate the lbs/kg conversion for us non US people, I’d just suggest that 30,4 lbs is more 13,6 kg unless there is some dark magic there that I don’t understand 🧐

I LOVE u're content!!!

man yo vids are awesome!

I can tell evans channel is the type of channel that can get 100k subs in a year

Wow, great video, you are like the michael vsauce of mountain biking

love the content

Okay, Chad was slick with the boost hub fix

I knew I’ve heard the intro song from somewhere then when you said donut media it made sense😂

There's never a more classic combo than Arizona and No Berms, haha. It's really hard to build a berm out of sand, cholla pods, and rock.

Love the vid

What is this? How much did you spend?! 😂😂😂 Definitely the best of your series. Thanks a lot for your content and greets from 🇩🇪

Dat low bike be looking sharp

I am glad your channel is exploxing cause wew your spending some serious cash. 😄

i love these videos

I have both carbon and aluminum rim wheels. I agree carbon is lighter and aluminum is more shock absorbency. In either application I would not ever have mountain bike rims so narrow. Minimum is i30mm internal width. This alone and especially when paired with good tires an tire inserts. I especially like how much better my gravel bike feels with i27mm rims. Being full rigid makes you notice the ride qualifies imprisonments and subtle deferences between carbon and aluminum and the different tires.

As primarily road cyclist with a 15k carbon everything sWorks, I chuckle whenever I see anything carbon on a trail mtb.

A mountain biker who also likes Donut? finally!

Dude , you are killing it! This series is the thing I look forward to the most each week... Can you tell me how you liked, or disliked the Garbaruk cassette on the AXS drivetrain? Noise? Shifting performance?? Thanks!

Alloy Rims (Halo Tornado, I challenge you to find a stronger rim) laced to Hope Pro4 hubs with Halo double butted stainless spokes. When the nuclear apocalypse occurs, those wheels will be the only survivors. Front cost me £110, the rear is on order. It'll wind up about £220 all in for the rear. Not easy putting a 26 together but worth it.

Good video

Glad to see you growing so fast Evan. Full time wen? Haha

Maybe an slightly inaccurate test for the rims, tires have a very big difference specially when it comes to compounds, would be great if the tire high and low swap was for another video

i thought you will go for a mullet set up but i remember that big clearance in the rear so i think the bikes was meant to upgrade for a 29er

Great content, I'm amazed at the difference from the rims! Is it possible to isolate this by swapping the wheels across and rerunning? I just can't believe that's the single reason for the time improvement

Hi 😊 very nice video man 🤜 I have a question, for the rear you change original wheel with 9x135mm hub with new wheel with boost hub with conversion kit that reduce hub to 9x141mm. My question is the rear rotor has problem with rear brake? No rubber problem of rotor touch the pads o anything?

I have spank oozy 395+ wheels on I9 hydra hubs. To me, that's of good as a wheelset id ever strive to have. Id try some carbon hoops, but not at the cost of some of these on the market.

Better than the donut series!

Hey even I think it would be a great idea if you invested into a park tool, internal cable routing tool to make builds Easy when the bike has internal cable routing like your polygon t7

You should've gotten the ones with Berd Spokes!

I bet you, that you gonna be a famous and successful RU-vid.

I have school right now but this is more important

LOL the jeff kendall weed thing was super funny the dude is just popping wheelies for an entire video

I love your videos

I love your vids

This is gonna top Ferrari's price ! Good videos mate !

Not taking the opportunity to clean up and repaint the spanks with all the spokes off is killing me! The weight reduction even on the low bike is nice! Food for thought, I think that upgrade alone would actually get the Siskiu D-series comfortably clear of the 32/34lb suggested max on a lot of car roof racks.

I don't want carbon rims on my bike - not because of the price, but because they are unrecycleable landfill when they're done (for whatever reason). I love lacing up a fresh pair of hoops every now and then. Maybe to try a new width, or because the old ones are just used up and dead. That costs me merely 100-200 euros including spokes, and the old rims can be recycled. With carbon you're pretty much fixed to the rims you're having - if you don't earn like a mogul.

You should arrange your high to low series.

I love your vids but I would’ve definitely gone for loud hubs I don’t know why just like the sound

you're doing a really great job on this series! MT7 HC3's for the high bike coming up?

i love your videos