Well there we were cycling up to the Grand Saint Bernard pass to get from switzerland to Italy after having a night of minus 5 in Chamonix and climbing two cols already, when I noticed my front tyre was off the rim... Closer inspection confirmed that the locking edge of the wheel's rim had peeled off allowing the tyre to come off! Neither of us has seen this happen to a wheel before. And these wheels were supposed to be super tough! The temps were plummeting and we found out that the col itself was closed due to snow and the tunnel lower down was off limits to bikes so we decided to catch a bus for a 30 min bus ride to Aosta in Italy on the other side of the Alps. Broken wheel or not we could not get across the col by bike. We spent ages looking for a place to stay in Aosta eventually finding a hotel which was not 100 euro a room. Tomorrow we have to find a bike shop and fix this wheel. Hopefully it does not delay us too much. I have a few words I would like to say to Mavic about their wheels! James
I’m sure you told me that these "individually hand crafted" wheels would easily survive at least 15000km?
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