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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Mavic Frozen Nipples

This is a great post, and so I will not resort to paraphrasing. Courtesy of RogueMechanic! This is really good general knowledge stuff about Mavic wheels..

Nipple thread actually inside the rim...



"Great designs still have drawbacks. Honestly, there's not much that you can do to prevent this from happening. It's a rare occurance but can still happen. This design that Mavic uses on their higher quality wheels (Ksyriums, CrossMax. etc) actually has the nipple threading into the rim as opposed to the nipple threading onto the spoke. Great idea but not infallible...This was no longer a 15 minute job.... This was tedious and took much longer than expected. Here's what remains of the extracted nipple and spoke end... Corrosion was the major cause of this issue as is with most frozen nipple issues. It's just much less of an process replacing the traditional spoke nipple design. And please refrain from the "could be prevented with a nice dinner and a bottle of wine" comments... Thanks for reading!"


That's way better than having a damaged threading in the rim, I think...

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