If you ever questioned the strength of carbon wheels - Aaron Gwin DH ride on rim

[rinconryder]

Unreal....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMYW91g5bwI

[spacemen3]

Holy wow! :banana:

[djdj]

"Honest, I was JRA"

[tuscanyswe]

Amazing that it held up and that guy got some balls.

[54ny77]

i can say with 100% certainty that he went down that hill with no tire and bare rim faster than i could ever dream of going with a fully intact bike!

[hida yanra]

eh, woulda worked better were it handcrafted outa metal.

Wish somebody would have asked him afterwards about ride quality of his mass-produced wheels, doesn't he know that handbuilt alloy wheels ride more smoothly?

[ThaRiddla]

ha. you can see the moment he realized the tire was off and said "whatevs, I'm gonna ride anyway".

[tiretrax]

It's nice to be young and bulletproof.

[eippo1]

That was not what I expected. Amazing

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[Wilkinson4]

BALLER. Posted in the tires matter thread b/c i missed this one. That was insane.

mIKE

[k-mac]

Video taken down.

[Dustin]

Video taken down.


Thanks, UCI!

[Mr. Pink]

Yeah, thanks. I have so many ways to watch downhill mountain biking on the media available to me. Pretty smart of you to restrict that.

[dogdriver]

Crazy skills. I would have slid out going straight on pavement.

[SpeedyChix]

Another link for now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNou8Qk7tx0

[firerescuefin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld5HGKO4OQc

Full run

[Mr. Pink]

jeez louise!

[nbl78s]

Wow, and to think I've told a few of my friends they are nuts for riding carbon rims and it is only a matter of time till they fail :bike: I stand corrected

[redir]

Another link for now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNou8Qk7tx0

Resistance is futile Muahahahha.


And yeah that's crazy.

[torquer]

This thread makes an interesting counterpoint to the one (59 posts long, at this point) titled "Tires don't make that much of a difference..."

[rinconryder]

He was still top 10 among female pros who are blazing fast as well...puts the speed that he was riding in perspective. I thought that rim was going to blow up for sure after some of those air drops off the rock ledges.

[54ny77]

That entire run should be a commercial for whoever made those rims.

At the end, a message in simple letters: "We make good rims."

[malbecman]

Mad riding skills for sure!!

Thanks for posting.

[Nebby]

He wasn't riding a carbon wheel, it was an alloy rim: the DT Swiss EX-471.

Photo of the wheel:
Aaron Gwin at WC in Leogang, Austria - photo by Jim-laden - Pinkbike (http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/11076435)

Link to the rim:
https://www.dtswiss.com/Components/Rims-MTB/EX-471

[rinconryder]

I stand corrected! Thanks for that.

[jimoots]

Also important to remember those bikes are rocking a lot of travel. Still super impressive from an equipment perspective.

And personally, having ridden rim only on the street for laughs a few times, I can't believe he held it together and didn't eat it. What a crazy dude and amazing rider.

[torquer]

He wasn't riding a carbon wheel, it was an alloy rim: the DT Swiss EX-471.
Coming soon to a Craigslist near you!
"Gently used."

[TomNY]

I was volunteer at Mountain Creek where Gwin raced. He was far away faster than anybody else.

[c-record]

Awesome!