I had a OMAS front hub flange crack thru 3 spoke holes, X3 spoking, not happen while riding either........wayne davidson Invers NZ.......
on 25/8/05 7:03 AM, Raymond Dobbins at raydobbins2003@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ken Wehrenberg wrote:
>
> Regarding GPM, I had a wheelset with their Campy-look-alike hubs and
> generally liked them until I had some spokes pull off a portion of the
> flange. It became a paperweight!
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> this has happened to me with campy record and c-record front hubs. i
> call it spontaneous because it didn't happen while riding. both times
> the wheels alone were hanging from ceiling hooks inserted perpendicular
> to the ground. the only weight on the wheels was that of the wheels
> themselves. in both cases, the spokes were laced radially. (i was
> sitting right under the record wheel when it happened - it made a
> really LOUD snap sound that scared the hell out of me.) the failure
> started at one spoke hole, and over time it tore off the portion of the
> flange running along 6 holes, but on side only. in the case of the
> c-record hub...ooops, never mind.
>
> this has never happened to any of my 3-cross wheels, so i attribute the
> failures to the radial lacing. has this happened to anybody else?
>
> ray dobbins
> miami florida