Not long after my friend Gina outfitted her Pivot trail bike with a new set of DT-Swiss carbon wheels, she took it to a bike shop for a tune-up. During the service, the mechanic noticed distortion in the front rim, so she emailed DT-Swiss’s USA office and was told it was most likely caused by exposure to exhaust while transporting her bike on a hitch rack.
That got me thinking. I had noticed something similar happening to my carbon wheels. Twice, after just a 10-minute commute, the rim closest to my car’s exhaust was warped or buckled.
This story is from the January/February 2020 edition of Bicycling South Africa.
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