For Sale: Mavic Ellipse Wheelset

Mavic Ellipse Wheelset for sale.
Both lockring threads knackered. On one side there's a 17t sprocket and le lockring glued with weldtite. Can be removed. The wheelset is perfectly fine if you want to use them for track or freewheel. I will not be liable if you use them on your fixie skidder and the sprocket would come off when you least expect it. Rimtape and wheelnuts included.

£121 offers

The story behind both stripped threads is that instead of putting on a french thread lockring I did put a Miche (italian).

Not sure if it's weldtite. Something like that. Industrial glue.

this a fucking bargain good luck

Thanks Loic!

pictures added.

Do they have machined braking surfaces so they can be used with a freewheel?

Yes Linc, they do have braking surfaces, in fact the front one has been used for a brake for a short period, then it was painted over with a permanent marker, the rear one is still a virgin.

they can still be used for fixed, the buyer just needs to use 'rotafix' method. i don't have lock-rings on either bike and i use leg braking up here in hilly rossendale.

Nice wheels!

I'd take the front if anyone wanted the rear?

I'd take the front if anyone wanted the rear?

Oooooooh matron!

DIBS DIMIRI - I will buy them, I have been PM you yesterday and this am... let me know where to meet you dude - thx stu

they can still be used for fixed, the buyer just needs to use 'rotafix' method.

What, so that they can fuck the sprocket threads to match the lockring threads?

What, so that they can fuck the sprocket threads to match the lockring threads?

prick

Umm no. Why on earth do you think that the rotafix method would do anything helpful?

prick

loveclughfixie: you have to be a brave person to ride the track without solid rear sprocket. unless you have seen these wheels i really wouldnt comment ... rotafix is a method for putting a sprocket on, then you use a LOCKRING and a tool to SECURE the sprocket ... remember this is not stichup ebay - this a forum of fellow cyclists - looking out for each other....
respect to you brothers

funny that...i got it off a professional track rider's site who rides on/off track with out lockrings. there are plenty of others who ride without lockrings using rotafix. i'm 17 stone and ride all the hills around here without a lockring with no problems at all.

and as for stripping threads using rotafix, i'll be surprised if anyones strong enough.

as for eluding to the fact i'm trying to 'stitch' someone up...what? i was trying to be helpful...only to get flamed by some prick who, i assume thinks he knows better.

the pressure required to rotafix with the hands on the wheel is greater than the friction of the tyres on the road surface before a skid ensues, therefore rotafix is perfectly safe if executed correctly.

rotafix is perfectly safe if executed correctly.

Quoted for posterity, it will make a nice epitaph for you when your rotafixed sprocket unwinds during an emergency stop.

17 stone and no lock ring / hills, you are also brave sir

;-)

Quoted for posterity, it will make a nice epitaph for you when your rotafixed sprocket unwinds during an emergency stop.
I thought that he had already stripped the threads by rotafixing - He's not going to be going fast enough to make an emergency stop.

I thought that he had already stripped the threads by rotafixing.

No, he just damaged and weakened them. They don't strip until the sprocket starts unwinding.

i'm 17 stone and ride all the hills around here without a lockring with no problems at all.

What?

No, he just damaged and weakened them. They don't strip until the sprocket starts unwinding.

He's not putting down enough power then.

If you're not scattering swarf with every turn of the wheel, you're not tying hard enough.

What?

are you questioning his weight or the fact he rides with no lock ring ... or both

even the great sheldon brown said it was ok to run without lockrings....or was he a numpty too?