My Carbon Wheels Broke! 

Bummer. You could probably fix that right up with a little duct tape. LOL. Too soon? Hey, at least you still have more bikes than you can count. Cheers!

love your videos at 3:10 you have a slight miscconception. normal spokas only wokr in tesnions so the "unsuported" part of therim is much larger tha with these. (thats thekey advantage of those large spokes(like thes ore bike ahead biturbo) that they can build the rim much lighter because it transverse the load both in compression and tesnion instead of only tension so the bending moment is much smaler. the effect ist that they have lighter rims so even if they are not the lightest they ted to have reeally low inertia(so they are easy to accelerate)

Ouch! I'd be having a good hard look at that front wheel too now. Would a replacement wheel come with a three year warranty as well I wonder - I'd certainly hope so! It's a shame, as they really suit that bike.

Thanks for being honest Dave.. not a set of wheels I would use 😃👍🚴🏻a small no is to many to be testing on consumers

Im suprised that they market them as 'gravel wheels' because (although not my thing) they look like a cool commuter wheelset for flying around the city on etc but yeah fair play to you for that review.

At least they didn’t explode with you on them Dave

I agree with you Dave. Drive rims for 1200$!? That sucks! 👎👎 You can put that money towards a new bike for crying out loud! 8:45 Freehub does sound nice ...lol

I assume as they look like old bmx wheels you can pop em in the freezer and they will come out fixed?

That's a shame, does sound very crunchy when you poked it. Good job you have other bikes and wheels, would be a pain if that was your only wheelset.

Thanks Dave, I was going to buy a set of these when they come back available, think I will go spokes now lol 😂

Great vid Dabe, never change THANKS

Thank you for your honest disclosure.

Never trusted this type of wheels. There is a damn good reason why adventure motorcycles all use spoked wheels.

i know the ghost xco team use similar spoked wheels but i don't know how they have fared, they do have a caning though.

You seem surprised Dave. Carbon Fiber doesn’t compress well.

Ask for a spoke set I had a Carbon Drop Bar crack and was lucky I found out off the bike.

Maybe not enough spokes to support the rim as the failure isn't far off mid span between the spokes.

I wasnt a fan of the design but i dont like em even more now i have heard how loud that hub is 😂

Not great news and gutted for you. For what it’s worth, I managed to crack a rear Zipp 303s hitting a pot hole. Is the wheel a bad design, no. Did the wheel have spikes, yes. In my case running low pressure, meant that the wheel bottomed out on the edge of the pothole which resulted in a crack along the edge of the rim. I was unlucky. I do think however that warranty and after sales experience is more important than the item you purchase. I was lucky in this instance, Zipp agreed to replace the wheel. Hopefully you manage to get a replacement sorted.

Eso tuviste que pegar en algún sitio no es normal que se agrieten sin más…otra cosa las tienes con panzer o mus para proteger o solo con la cubierta

Do you think the Black Inc FIVE wheels could have the same issues?

Drive did put him on the black list.

Ah.. that explains it. Bummer

that's ridiculous and so dangerous. As you said you only just noticed but could have been months ago and end up in a worse situation... Surely they can send you another wheel-set with actual spokes, you know, like how wheels are supposed to be made?

You're lucky it wasn't the front wheel!

maybe carbon wheels are disposable. just for racing

In 2023 a 3 year manufacturing warranty isn't really good enough. Personally I wouldn't buy a frame or wheels that doesn't have a lifetime warranty.

they are Rubbish Dave

That's the risk you take with carbon wheels.

Carbon cant be recycled. Thats the bad parr.

Road wheel for Carbon........MTB for Alu........ALWAYS~!!!

Carbon is not stable at all!

it's just a flesh wound

that sucks, I thought they looked cool.

what a load of waffle. yes it broke. get over it