It doesn’t seem all that long ago that mountain bike magazines and blogs were abuzz with the question “who really needs carbon mountain bike wheels?”. In the heady days of 2010, we had just about accepted that carbon bars were not going to explode and kill you if you accidentally scratched them with a sharp […]
REVIEWED: Light Bicycle XC923 carbon wheel set
Almost one year ago I placed an order for a carbon mountain bike wheel set from Light Bicycle. I used their online wheel builder and chose the XC923 asymmetric rims, 28 DT spokes per wheel, and the always reliable DT240 hubs. It was less than two weeks until the wheels were built and delivered to […]