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the archetype rim is not offset.

The reason why your laser spokes snapped is not the spoke it is a poor build. used 1000's of lasers and they don't snap.

Your wheel is out of true probably because of insufficent stress relieving and or some wind up being present.

wheels manufacturing will do a compatible cone. Look up there chart. I have every one of them if that help but I have no idea which one is the closest match.

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Anybody noticed what Ryde have on their website lately? Lots of new stuff (lots of rims with offset spoke bed in particular), Grizzly seem to be discontinued (which I find surprising - maybe the CSS sidewall isn't all it's cracked up to be...)

Site says available from Feb '16.

Sputnik still present. Phew.

maybe the CSS sidewall isn't all it's cracked up to be...)
Sputnik still present

And Sputnik is now available in CSS version.

DP Tour looks like the successor to the Grizzly, with bead lips to hold tubeless tyres.

Grizzly seem to be discontinued (which I find surprising - maybe the CSS sidewall isn't all it's cracked up to be...)

Don't know why exactly the Grizzly was discontinued but I don't think it's down to the CSS sidewall. That tungsten carbide impregnation of the rim results in the toughest and hardest braking surfaces I have ever seen. You can still get CSS on just about every Ryde rim brake rim, just usually has to be a special order, apart from certain set models you can order already treated.

I built what will probably be my last ever set of Grizzlys the other day. Sad.

EDIT: I've built many sets of wheels with the Ryde Trace series. I have some Trace Enduros on my biek (they're now rebranded Trace 29's) and they are excellent.

Aha, So DP Tour seems to be the new Grizzly. DP hehe. Sexytime. Bead lips.

Interesting about the CSS now being rolled out to other rims. Hadn't spotted that. Thing is, as far as I can tell, the blue pads are just available on V brake shoes - or am I being a dork and that also means OK for Canti too? Never used V brakes... Would really like to see the Blue pads available for caliper brakes too... seems silly since people are still using these brakes on the majority of road bikes and winter bikes.

people are still using these brakes on the majority of road bikes and winter bikes

But it's a declining market, people who are prepared to spend +£100 to have CSS are probably mainly the same people who are buying new winter/touring/commuting bikes with disc brakes. There's not much money for Ryde in rims for rich retrogrouches

Are Rigida and Ryde the same company?

Are Rigida and Ryde the same company?

Yes, Rigida rebranded themselves as Ryde. I think there may have been some restructuring/divestment involved too, but that's the thrust of it. The low-end OEM stuff seems to have gone to China along with the Weinmann brand into a joint venture with Kenda
http://www.weinmanntek.com/Company/About.htm

people who are prepared to spend +£100 to have CSS are probably mainly the same people who are buying new winter/touring/commuting bikes with disc brakes

Pfffft. Tester you are almost always on the money. But maybe you didn't have your normal brain food for breakfast? ... People who want a really good rim brake walls also don't want rim brakes. Oh the irony.

All I was saying was Kool Stop or Swiss stop seem to make every pad for every brake, except this one.

Tester you are almost always on the money

If you think I'm wrong (and judging by Rydes product launches, they're with me), set up as a manufacturer of premium priced rim-brake rims, you'll make a killing if you're right because everybody else is hitching their wagon to the disc brake trend

/facepalm

That tungsten carbide impregnation of the rim results in the toughest and hardest braking surfaces I have ever seen.

Until disc brakes.

the blue pads are just available on V brake shoes - or am I being a dork and that also means OK for Canti too?

It can be, depending on the canti itself (some have road insert).

I was talking about rim brakes only in this respect.

I have not seen the CCS rims on sale yet. Would not mind trying some.

edit - question moved to road wheel recommendations...

I know, I'm just saying that the market is getting a lots smaller now that you can get a cheap rotor that'll outlast ceramic rims.

Yes, but CSS is not a ceramic coating. And considering its intense durability I would be really interested in testing its longevity against disc brake rotors. The tungsten carbide coating really is that good.

I've built with quite a few of these rims and to take an example from one case, their complete lack of wear after being used for long commuter miles for two years from a seriously big guy, a 21 stone ex-rower, who rides 100-120 miles a week in all conditions and absolutely luuurrrrves to sit on the brakes.
For context I built this guy a rear wheel using a Mavic XM719, if I remember correctly, and within a month his braking habits and bulk combined to wear the rim concave as if it had been used for a year by a normal sized brake botherer. I was astounded when the wheel came back in for the standard post-wheel build check.
I looked at his Andra rim the other day and the braking surface is virtually unscathed.

Whilst there is ceramic/css chat - does anyone make wide (like 23mm) 700c ceramic/css rims? Rigida grizzly are 19mm internal I think...
Cheers,
Matt

Recommendations for a sub 400g 700c clincher rim for use without rim brakes? can't be limited to the 45PSI of stans.