Wow. another one cracked again exactly in line with a spoke…
wtf is wrong with their injection mold. They’re either under injecting or the mold is too cold…
Their is some fault with their molding… the cores are all cracking in exactly the same place at a mold seam it looks like… possibly all the same batch too
I think those are the stock 90mm hub motors found on most base model budget China esk8’s. Those cloud wheels also don’t look THAT much bigger. I wonder if they are the 105mm wheels.
Could be. those axles gonna snap soon if they bolted wheels to hub motors lol. Alternatively they made the axles longer and extend past the hub…
I wonder if some of the micro cracked cores are due to rough, ham fisted installation of the bearings, cause it looks like one of my wheels has a small crack around the bearing seat, but also a mark where it looks like maybe the bearing was inserted at an angle, and jammed or slammed into place, possibly cracking the core. What do y’all think of this theory?
If one or two maybe, but a crack right in line with a spoke is not right, if its bad install or even weak material, it should crack where it is not supported by a spoke. But since 9/10 is cracking perfectly straight at the spoke, its mostly likely that a particular mold or batch were all injected too cold or some other mfg flaw, leading to a weak line of material right there every single core
This FB post seems to be confirmation that its a retrofit hack attached to hubs with no axle support
I love the fact that they all buy the same shit from the same factory and talk like it is their own creation. 
They’ll make pulleys out of the same shitty plastic, and it’ll be a case of knowing which snaps first…
Joke aside, once they do that, this will destroy any hope of them working on Kegel cores.
Self centered win, I-wonder agreed to cancel my order, close shave
This whole situation really sucks. Short of treading a tb110, does anyone else know of a wheel option that splits the difference between comfort, grip in the wet, and weight/size?
I want to build an all weather short-range light weight commuter, and I was going to use clouds (maybe even the 105mms when/if they come out) but I dont really think I want to roll the dice on another set of these wheels, even though my current set is still going strong (and Im going to continue to ride them).
These cloudwheels really filled a niche in esk8 wheels that is empty with them off the table.
There’s still the option of the airless 105mm rubber/aluminium wheels. But they have their own set of limitations as a bastard cross breed between urethane wheels and pneumatic. As long as you accept them as a compromise, they’re not completely bad.
Bacon strips? Poorly-manufactured garbage.
yeah, something like those I pictured there.
The top ones aren’t so bad… the bottom wheels are awful!
note that the bottom ones are the 2nd version of what I think were called skullboard wheels or something naff like that. First version had a A thread pattern, and was source of horrible vibration. v2 don’t vibrate as much, but they are a rounder profile, smaller contact patch, and they still feel a bit dead and suck energy. On the plus side, they are a good 100g lighter, they have holes compatible with kegel style stuff.
With this resounding endorsement, I’m sold.
By the way, on this pic, the spokes look thicker than what we’re used to. And also, looks like a sort of clear material…
Maybe they changed their material and molds, without really owning that there was a defect, which (for a responsible manufacturer) would have led to a massive recall.
The plot thickens.
y’all hate rubber wheels, but these work pretty decent on prepared surfaces (like the short tracks they are designed for). no cracks in the cast aluminum yet
What if someone attached their pulley onto the core and dipped the entire thing in epoxy?
So its an epoxy’d core with the pulley permanently attached.
Would that help strengthen it at all?
