Great designs still have drawbacks. Honestly, there's not much that you can do to prevent this from happening. It's a rare occurance but can still happen. This design that Mavic uses on their higher quality wheels (Ksyriums, CrossMax. etc) actually has the nipple threading into the rim as opposed to the nipple threading onto the spoke. Great idea but not infallible...This was no longer a 15 minute job....
Here's a closer look at the Mavic FORE design...
This was tedious and took much longer than expected. Here's what remains of the extracted nipple and spoke end...
Corrosion was the major cause of this issue as is with most frozen nipple issues. It's just much less of an process replacing the traditional spoke nipple design. And please refrain from the "could be prevented with a nice dinner and a bottle of wine" comments... Thanks for reading!
Happy New Year! Happiness and success in 2011.
Posted by: school_dubl | December 29, 2010 at 07:42 PM
I had this issue with my Crossmax wheel. I had to send this wheel to a workshop in another country to have it fixed as there's no service center for Mavic in Ukraine. Could you please tell me how should it be fixed.
Posted by: Alex | May 13, 2008 at 11:16 AM