Whisky Sauced on Carbon Rims, Wheels & Straight Carbon Canti Cyclocross Fork

600 BUCKS A RIM??!?!

1870 grams for a high end carbon cross wheelset is ridiculous. there’s plenty of alloy wheels that are much lighter.

Man, I thought for sure given the relatively mild price of their forks that these would be around the 400 pricepoint. And the 32 hole only option is limiting IMO. People are gonna want to build lower-spoked wheels, especially on disc road bikes. Then again, they may come out with a less burly and lighter road specific version.

For comparison, a Stans Iron Cross rim weighs 385 grams and costs $88.

Sorry….but rim weight is way off. Of course you can bust a Hope axel….super easy as is. Whiskey is a great idea…..but $600 a rim for an overweight rim? c’mon…10 years ago that’d work. But not now. QBP needs new talent if this is what is coming out. $300-200 a rim. Sure. $600? Competelt oblivious to the market. And I can say this…because I was selling them their first carbon rims 10 years ago. Much better than this stuff. Lighter. Cheaper.

What?! $600…. per… rim?!?!??!?!

Are you kidding me? Let me say that again… ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

These guys are drunk. Seriously. They must be. There is no other explanation for why a fringe small company like this is asking happily if there are people out there who want to get ripped off.

Wow my Iron cross 28 spoke wheelset came in at 1300grams and only $600, I think they are way off the mark with these

Strong. Light. Cheap…. pick ONE… and eff the other two.

these are going to be a tuff sell.

by the way if these rims are the burly hub snapping beasts that they claim they are…why the weight limit? just saying.

I don’t see the problem.

Whisky Carbon Clincher: 460g $600 MSRP ($1.30/g)
Enve 29″ XC 32 Hole Clincher: 385g $899 MSRP ($2.34/g)

Seems like a pretty good deal if you want carbon rims.

Lighter is not always better. And carbon, many times is not lighter than aluminum.
Sure a aluminum rim that is 80 grams lighter is going to be cheaper.
But I went through 2 sets of iron cross rims last season, because they are like lightweight wet noodles, and they flex all over the place. I’m only 180lbs.

I personally applaud a bombproof carbon rim option, that costs less than enve.
At 460 grams, I would expect these to last a few seasons!

So maybe the Iron Cross rim isn’t for you, ThorsHammer. But would you really want to spend 7 times as much money for a rim that weighs more? Really? Wow. Let me get this straight – you replace rims that aren’t working for you with the EXACT same rims and then instead of trying a different aluminum rim from another company, you want to go straight to a heavier carbon rim that costs 7 times as much. Interesting.

There is no reason to get so snarky and angry about this product. No one is forcing you to buy this. If you have misgivings then feel free to share them and I’m sure the guys at Whisky will read them, but if you want to be taken seriously then share those misgivings in a way that doesn’t seem like you’re a school yard bully.

My two cents, these are very expensive, but they seem tough, and having met a few guys from Whisky I think they’ll stand up on their own two feet. One reality that most people miss about Q-brands is that they operate on a VASTLY smaller economy of scale than their competitors, and they also pay their employees very livable wages, most of them based in areas that don’t have supremely low cost of living. If you want these things to be cheap, be aware that you’re frequently trading a lot of humanity for those savings. I used to be a shoprat making $14k a year in southwest Missouri, and these rims aren’t really meant for someone like me, so I spec’d my Space Horse with Velocity Synergies instead, and everything is gravy. There’s no need to be mad because the dangling grapes are out of your reach.

@Joe417: The thing about Whisky/Foundry is that they are marketed as carbon fiber for the blue-collar work-a-day crowd. So on the one hand it does make sense that they would release a carbon rim that is durable rather than light. On the other hand, the only people who are willing to dish out SIX-HUNDRED DOLLARS for a single rim are sponsored racers (who are not paying full price) or racer wanna-be’s, and those people want light parts. Its bad enough spending $90 for Stan’s Chinese made Aluminum rims, but you can buy 6 Arch EX rims for the price of one of these Whisky rims, and still have beer money left over. I’m sure the big, burley blue-collar guy who busts wheels all the time is going to choose the reasonably priced option.

Your argument might hold water if there were a lot of American workers making a good wage making and selling these rims. But these rims are made in the same Chinese factories as all the other Asian-sourced carbon parts, by people making pennies an hour. I suspect there are less than a handful of people employed by Quality in the US making that living wage selling these parts. At least those crazy expensive ENVE rims are made in the USA, creating a lot more well paying jobs then the Whisky rim ever would.

Good Grief. Learn how to build wheels and make them yourself. I have 4 rims from China coming for $128 a piece being built on American Classic hubs and Pillar Aero spokes. Built by me. Looking at about $500 bucks for a 38mm Wide carbon disc tubular wheelset. For crying out loud, I have a set of light bicycle wheels coming in the same spec but with a Novatec hub (which is good btw) for $500 for the set.
This is a wheelset/rim for people that don’t have friends that can help them or can’t true a wheel themselves or sponsored riders getting them for free. Even if you get a discount, what? your paying $300 for a rim that you can get from Light Bicycle for $128?

The real question is what year model is that Kelly green all city cross frame?!?!?

I’m-monna get my troll on. This is stupid. I’m so glad that Whisky has graced this earth with overpriced bicycle parts.

I have seen many people bashing these wheels, so I’m going to put my two sense in. I have a set of these with DT swiss 350 hubs on a salsa colossal. I absolutely love them. They feel alive where aluminum rims feels dead and flexy. There just as stiff as the frame which is stupid stiff? They weigh about 1700g and ride like tubulars. Some people have said stuff about these being re-branded and up-charged ebay carbon from china. But I assure you these are very nice, and most certainly not a variety of the cheap china rims. Did I mention they are stiff as a rock? Coming off of a standard no name deep v rim these make me feel like I have some serious tail wind at my back, even though I’m going up a hill. Try them, I guarantee you won’t regret it, I don’t.