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• Heaviest Brompton rider?

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• Heaviest Brompton rider?

  in Bikes & Bits • 9 years, 3 months

  

  Hi, I'm aware that the official weight limit for a Brompton is 110kg but does anyone know of any Brompton riders that are heavier than that whose Brompton hasn't snapped?

  I'm 140kg btw, so at my intended weight loss rate of one to two kilograms a month the soonest I could be under the weight limit would be a year, but with my current commuting routine I could really do with having a Brompton sooner than that.

  Thanks in advance for the advice.

• Camera to record dangerous driving.

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• Copper grease-anti seize

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• Disk brake specific cyclocross rims.

  in General • 9 years, 9 months

  

  Do you think it's worth getting the guy at my local bike shop to just rebuild the wheel with the same rim then? I do know that he is a good wheel builder, I've had wheels that he's built in the past and they've withstood me using them.

  With the different Mavic 29er wheel sets; what's the difference in the rim between the Askium, the Crossone, the Crossride and the Crossroc?

• Disk brake specific cyclocross rims.

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• Disk brake specific cyclocross rims.

  in General • 9 years, 9 months

  

  Thanks for the replies, Mavic it is then.

• Disk brake specific cyclocross rims.

  in General • 9 years, 9 months

  

  Wholly thread revival, so I got a Cannondale cross bike and it came with maddux cx 2.1 36 spoke wheels. On the first ride I had spoke snappage, because I'm 22 stone. So do you guys think that the wheels I was originally planning to get (see above) would be a lot stronger than the maddux wheels?

  I've got Mavic Cosmic Elite wheels on my road bike and they've not failed me, do Mavic make a cyclo cross/29er version of these wheels and what are they called?

  Thanks again.

• Disk brake specific cyclocross rims.

  in General • 9 years, 10 months

  

  I've always been inclined to go for Mavic rims and wheels. It's decided; Hope pro hubs, DT Swiss spokes and probably Mavic XM119 rims.

• Disk brake specific cyclocross rims.

  in General • 9 years, 10 months

  

  Sorry for posting the ebay link, I hardly ever sell on ebay so you can be reassured the likelihood of it happening again is negligible. Sorry also for possibly posting in the wrong section.

  Thanks for the detail Howard. I'm not racing and I'm a very heavy rider so from what you've written thirty six spoke 29er wheels will probably be the right choice for me.