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That said, I do wonder how regularly people break carbon fibre rims – I can't imagine it's that often. I like that idea – it doesn't completely cut out the environmental cost of making it in the first place, but it goes some way to taking responsibility for the impact of carbon fibre rims that will inevitably end up in landfill if they break.

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If you somehow manage to break it, Chris King will replace your whole wheel totally free of charge with a brand new one, in the process recycling the old rim to make a new one. The polymers in the FusionFiber rim can be reversed and the rim can be rebuilt.

This is down to the use of those long-chain polymers, as opposed to the typical epoxies used to glue carbon fibres together. That's not to say it's designed to feel like a soggy sponge over the rough stuff – rather, it's been tuned to have a better balance between comfort and stiffness.Īnother useful benefit of the use of thermoplastic over carbon fibre is that the rim is recyclable. The GRD23 rim is designed to offer more comfort than a conventional carbon one when you're off the beaten track, with 'a wider range of compliance profiles'. FusionFiber still uses carbon fibres, but instead of gluing them together using a thermoset process, the bonding agent is this advanced polymer – malleable at a specific temperature, hardening when it cools. Instead of conventional carbon fibre, Chris King is using FusionFiber for its rims, which is 'a cutting edge thermoplastic that incorporates long-chain polymers'. Most importantly, though, Chris King has spotted an opportunity in the market not being served by current carbon wheelsets that it says trade comfort for stiffness. What makes the company able to take on the big players in a well established game? A few reasons: Chris King already makes its own premium hubs, and it's already been lacing said hubs to a variety of high-end rims for some time now (Enve and Zipp, to name just a couple), so the wheel-building skills are certainly there. > Buy now: Chris King GRD23 R45D for £3,000 from Saddleback But that's all changed this year as the company is dipping its toes in the water, first with the Chris King MTN30, a wheelset aimed at mountain bike riders, and second with these GRD23 gravel wheels. They're not the lightest, though, nor are they the widest kind of gravel wheel out there, and you can certainly find better performance for less.Ĭhris King is widely known for its high-quality hubs, headsets and bottom brackets. They're dripping with premium Chris King components, and feature an innovative new type of rim material that helps to make gravel riding more comfortable without sacrificing performance. Tl dr Due to a printing error I read a whole bunch of spoilers for house of chains and didn't even realize it because of the way Erikson writes.The Chris King GRD23 R45D is one of the most expensive gravel wheelsets we've ever come across.

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Somehow, pages 33-64 were swapped out for pages 977-1008! I basically read a whole bunch of spoilers! I mean I am still going to read the whole book, but because the stories jump around so much in this series it didn't really set off any red flags.

And the whole time I'm reading about that sea coming into the desert and other stuff.Īnyways, I get to a point where I turn the page and this new page starts with the ending of a sentence, but the previous page ended with a complete sentence.

And then I was like oh hey I Hedge just saved Fiddler guess that Paran's blessing made him a ghost or something. Then Feslin gets killed by her sister and I was just thinking 'wow this is a really fast start to this book'. I also thought it was cool how he revealed who the goddess is and how she was chained up, but I was confused as to who this L'oric was. I thought it was pretty cool that Erikson just suddenly went back to the Adjunct getting prepped to fight Sha'ik. I was confused but knew this is just how it works so I keep reading. But then when I reached the section introducing the Uryd clan suddenly I start reading about how pissed Sha'ik is. I mean, I'm reading along and everything was making sense. So I just started reading House of Chains, and I was pretty confused.