Please Tell Me This Is Over Priced

[JonMack]

Why would anyone want a 49MM wide rim

My 38mm Ronnie is plenty wide enough

To put it in a quick simple answer,

When building any of our top riders bikes they get the choice of ronnie or hog rims. They all say Hog straight away and give Tyre roll the reason behind it. So for me to bring out thinner rims then I would be going against some of the best riders points of view.

Its not quite 49mm. To be precise its 48.72.

If it aint broke, fix it til it is

Nothing wrong with 47mm rims, so they go to 49... great.

[basher]

Plus it's not like the factory had to go out and buy a whole new CNC machine for just this rim, they already had the kit. I think there is a whole lot of mark-up on this rim right now.

Honestly you think theres a big mark up? It costs an awful lot of money to be running a cnc machine just for an hour even. Why would they mark it up so much that its at a price where few riders will buy it when if they had it cheaper it would be a popular rim sell more but with a smaller profit but in the end make them more money. The price is because of the process and they have kept it down as much as possible id be suprised if there even making alot on the rims.

Onza obviously havnt anticpated that people are going to be chargeing over to tarty for the rims or other dealers, so they have ordered a small amount. If you dont want to pay the price for one dont get one its that simple. Its not over priced because of the process it goes through, yes if they where making the rim for £1 and selling for 75 then yeah it would be over priced but for the process it goes through it isnt over priced.

I dont see why people are slateing onza for it because they are the only company at the moment who seem to be putting any effort into new inotive designs and products, apart from koxx. They knew they wouldnt sell loads so havnt made loads so whats the big dealio.

[Revolver]

If it aint broke, fix it til it is

hahaha

personally, i think £75 is steep, and I'm probably not the only one who thinks: well, they say its a light rim, which it is, and it's supposd to be strong, so I suppose I'd buy one, but I think I'll wait for other people to buy them and see what they think before I do.

Of course, this is all hypothetical, as I'm a 24" rider, and there's not a 24" version.

[16 years later]

Ok they cost a bomb

But f**king look at them pimp pimp pimp

and the inner walls with round holes and the outer with square holes pimpage

and the weight is very good

but they should be un-eyeleted

and have anodised side walls

[yoyoyo]

I dont get the argument of.. if i destroy 1 rim ill buy a 2nd and everything will work out cheaper.. when for all u know the onza rim could outlast the next 5 rims you buy.. making it infact a steal at the price.

Exactly if one goes that quickly i'd expect the second to last the same amount of time.

It's a nice approach by onza to make something different and might help them to shed their current reputation from a lot of people on here.

[TrialZonn]

I believe that these rims are not overpriced and I would definately buy one ore two for my bike.

I think that Onza wouldn't price these rims so high if they were like all the other rims on the market.

You pay if you want quality.I think that these rims will be approved to be some of the strongest and 'long-lasting' rims out there.

[N.Wood]

Think I'll just wait for Deng's one that will be £20 cheaper.

[Luke Rainbird]

If I was that bothered I'd just whip out the file and have one that will be £50+ cheaper, not to mention lighter .

Fair play to Onza though, I'm sure a few will be snapped up

[N.Wood]

You may as well not have quoted me Luke, YOU SLUT.

I think its a high end product thats made using high end machines. Hence a high end price.

Not sure the welded seam is much to shout about, from my experience if a rim is mullered enough to come apart completely at the seam, its probably past the point of some weld helping at all.

I like the idea, I think this would sell very well if within £20 of the competition. Fair play to Onza

[jsy trials matt]

if its a wide rim you want get a viz they're 46 mm and onza only 49 mm 3 mm cant make that much difference

[Rusevelt]

Price overkill interesting that adam@tarty, or dave@onza haven't commented on this. looks insanely strong but even that doesn't justify a price over £50.

[AdamR28]

You guys don't wanna know what the RRP should have been then...

The Pro Series is not designed to be a strong rim, it's a light rim.

Good value IMO, much better than taking a file to a rim yourself, I would pay £80 for one no probs.

[ti-mig-guy]

This seems to be a pointless debate, seeing as how no one has reviewed one yet. I would say that people must have felt the same way about King components at one time. King's are not always the lightest, but people seem to line up to shell out big money for quality parts.

I think that in Trials, like LIFE, you get what you pay for.

Unfortunately that doesn't apply if they have not been proven.

My real question is why are there no bench tests, to show the strength of products? Most industries test there products for durability in the early stages of development. Seems that smashing a rim with a controlled press, and comparing results between rims would be a standard practice.

[Stan Shaw]

The 26" version is £80!

I think for £80 I would expect a rim to weigh less than 637grams. The whole point of bringing out a rim like this is surely to save weight, yet I don't think they saved that much. An un-painted Trialtech, or Try-all rim usually weighs 700g or less.