Anyone using BST Carbon Fiber wheels?

How bumpy are the roads between here and Starbucks

 

Don’t aftermarket wheels have a service life? IE, use it for a certain amount of time then throw it out?


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I think you are headed in the right direction when it comes to carbon wheels. Brand new out of the box they are 99% fine but when the wheels start to get marred by tire changes or micro cracks that when they fail.

 

I seem to recall some type of warning label about this for a set of magnesium Magtan wheels as well...

 

Yep...you should have a magnesium wheel checked for cracks every couple years or after any large lateral impact.

 

Hell I broke a stock Suzuki wheel at road Atlanta...no way would I ride on Carbon... Unless you just want to get rid of them...lol

 

I would probably shy away.

One of my friends is racing a S1000RR with the stock carbon wheels, crash at VIR destroyed both of them. He went to aluminum after that.
Also heard tire mounting breaking another one (track bikes get a lot more tires mounted then street)
This weekend at Road America another rider on a S1000RR had wheels break on a crash.

But I have also seen people race entire seasons on them. My opinion is to skip them and go for either OEM or forged wheels.

 

Rather have it fail here?



or here?



or here?




sorry i'll take the robot boots, cowhide, and full body armor over knee pads and sneakers and those velocities/heights any day... but be my guest haha.

 

So help me out here: what difference does it even make if you have wheels or not in those photos? I'm not even talking about a cracked wheel. I'm talking about a missing wheel. All I'm seeing there is guys base jumping without parachutes. You are out of your god damn mind if you think the comparison is valid.

 

haha well... in one of em' he's falling. in the other one, dude is just jumping off a cliff, and in fact lands on his wheels and/or bike where the frame is also made out of carbon. in the first one he's doing a backflip over a 74 foot canyon gap. he landed it. just saying, those are heavy impacts... but the crash one was to emphasize that I'd rather have a wheel failure on a race track, than a carbon failure THERE, that's all.

 

Oh, so you picked examples of your average Sunday morning mountain biker? You know, in the same way your average track day rider (Márquez, Nakano...) crashes at 210 mph at the end of the Mugello front straight? Got it.

Well, in the situations I would've been in, I would have much preferred my wheels to fail on a bicycle.

 

You know how he rolls. Highly exaggerated scenarios.

 

BST made OEM wheel for Triumph, amongst others, for what it's worth.

 

regular people with ENVE wheels and carbon bikes ride there all the time and do most of those things. people that aren't sponsored and don't get invites to Rampage i mean. i dunno man, it doesn't really matter, what matters is the carbon holds up under extreme stress. i wouldn't worry about a BST holding up. that's it.

 

What Triumph came with BST's? LOL

 

AMEN brother,,,,Mic Drop!

I like all the comments about posers and Starbucks and garage Queens it's the same as when people rag on Ducati's or expensive Italian motorcycles.... Old school and I'm getting old too....lol

 

Come here for free advice and you will definitely get what you paid for

 

I don't know what All the uproar is about, the man just wants to buy a bike with some free carbon wheels. Maybe they are just jealous jk.

 

Lightweight wheels make a huge difference, but carbon fiber would concern me. I have/had have, forged aluminum rims on a '13 RSV4, now on an '18 RSV4 Factory and on my '16 Tuono 1100 (street bike).

Those rims on the Tuono makes for a very lively ride on the street.

The RSV4's are known for their fatness, so the rims really make it feel much lighter than it is.

I'd ask the seller if he has the stock rims and see if he'll swap them out. Or, if you get the bike for a great price with the BST's, sell the BST's and get a set of forged rims and/or stockers.

 

Any advice on who or where to have them checked out - have 3 sets of magnesium wheels all over a couple years old and one set has been down the road - would rather not find out the hard way they're compromised so would definitely appreciate any recommendations!