Askium or Open Pro

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Permalink Reply by Alembical on August 14, 2009 at 2:39pm

Askium, Akium, Aksium.... sorry for my spelling

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Permalink Reply by Carl on August 14, 2009 at 3:01pm

to disagree, shimano hubs are smoother and can be easily repacked and it has more spokes so it will be more durable, rims are the same. I say go ultegra

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Permalink Reply by Alembical on August 14, 2009 at 3:23pm

Thanks, but I just actually ended up going with the Aksium as the rear was only $109 at Performance and surprisingly (to me at least) lighter than the Open Pro. Even if it does not last very long, it should serve its purpose for me... at that price.

Thanks though.

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Permalink Reply by Cyclocross Magazine on August 14, 2009 at 9:32pm

fyi, we had great luck doing a tubeless conversion on Askium wheel, if you were curious about tubeless.

lots of content on our site on tubeless.

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Permalink Reply by Alembical on August 17, 2009 at 10:12am

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Kat Statman on September 18, 2009 at 9:06am

How have you set up your Aksium's tubeless? with the Stan's kit or just yellow taping and a valve stem + some stans?

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Permalink Reply by CO Crosser on September 18, 2009 at 10:19am

Ditto, would be very interested to know how you set up tubless w/o using a tubeless rim and how well it works, etc. I'm guessing that just like Mtb tires, it's a bit tricky w/o an air compressor?

Thanks!!

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