Rims are In!

[FurryOnTheInside]

Yeah you tell them. Spoked wheels are just weaker.

 

[Baconator101]

Well since even Harley Davidson uses spokes I'd have to say you are missing something along the lines of comparable strength. Those 5 armed mag wheels just need a small crack to form and you lose 20% of the strength of the wheel, lose a spoke on my wheel and I have 35 left so I only lose a whopping 2.7777 repeating % of my total wheel strength and since many automobiles have used spokes in the past maybe you should call William Penn I hear he has a good memory and could tell you about them even old wooden carriages have big wooden spokes! Wood not metal so I think you don't even need to worry stainless steel was invented because wood just wasn't stain resistant enough in fact there are thousands of paint huffing weirdos that monetized on the stainability of wood so the wheel builders wanted a stain resistant material that could be made thinner than a tree branch that would foil all the paint huffing wackos from vandalizing all their wheels in shades of Gladstone oak and "brimming" mahogany and most of the time they did a sloppy job anyway so the hunt was on. Rumpledforskin and snow white were hired to fly to China where all the latest advances in metallurgy could be found and tracked down a roughneck named Kim Tim the Brim and he pointed a crooked yellowing finger at Lance Armstrongs great great great and dead by now ancestor Ron Paul, who at the time was working in a carriage shop that only sold manure and wheels well he was working on a new secret stainless metal that was so durable you needed 4 times as many spokes to pull it off and since everyone thought it was a great idea they decided to kill him but revived him after realizing it would be the demise of today's current Lance Armweak so in return he gave them the formula much to Mr krabs despair and they got caught up in Alaska at one point but finally caught a cab to their native American family in the pre-united states of North America and shouted to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

off topic reply here man, did you ever get around to running that NIGHT TRAIN YET? Hows it running? im on the fence about ordering the Bullet train engine, or putting together a 66cc Shift kit bike together. I want to build which ever will handle intermediate hills better. the single speed i use now can barely handle them, but it does handle them, under a lot of stress i might add, i want to giv'er a break from all that. Im aiming for something more "offroady".

 

[Crisco]

Just 1 wheel alone opens up vulnerability 32 times add another wheel 64 times when 1 spoke goes out the rest will follow on the kill.

Good enough for the Pro Peloton, XC, Enduro, Downhill, and motorcycles... Good enough for me..!

 

[biker61]

I have a genesis bike with the 7g kit,the only thing that ever fails is the rear wheel,so I'm going to order what you have,wish me luck.

Another Gasbike.com screw up,they fedexed the wheels to my po box knowing they can't do that so were returned.Like with nearly every order I've made with them I file a Paypal dispute/claim and then they get serious.

 

[inspectorcritic]

Another Gasbike.com screw up,they fedexed the wheels to my po box knowing they can't do that so were returned.Like with nearly every order I've made with them I file a Paypal dispute/claim and then they get serious.

Another Gasbike.com screw up,they fedexed the wheels to my po box knowing they can't do that so were returned.Like with nearly every order I've made with them I file a Paypal dispute/claim and then they get serious.

Sorry to hear of your rotten luck I order to my PO box no problem the blame is with your post office mine came I think FedEx been refuse by sellers though won't ship to PO address that's their loss not mine hope your luck improves. Hope this post is not a repeat something happened with first guess your contagious.

 

[inspectorcritic]

Yeah you tell them. Spoked wheels are just weaker.

That's gotta be me take a fall just walk away from flown a jet into thousands air guard and navy air only one who survived I had to patch the wing with piece of plywood it still fly radiation burns small arms perferoated it even had a metal pie plate embedded in the wing when a neutral AF man found it thought I had just come out either Twilight Zone or WWIII or both. The jet hangs in a exibet in Arlington.

 

[FurryOnTheInside]

That's gotta be me take a fall just walk away from flown a jet into thousands air guard and navy air only one who survived I had to patch the wing with piece of plywood it still fly radiation burns small arms perferoated it even had a metal pie plate embedded in the wing when a neutral AF man found it thought I had just come out either Twilight Zone or WWIII or both. The jet hangs in a exibet in Arlington.

Mind. Blown.

 

[Crisco]

it even had a metal pie plate embedded in the wing

Mmmmmm...Pies... Yumm..!

 

[biker61]

Tell you a warning see those 6 M5.08 bolts eventually they going to work lose first thing you do when you get it out of the box get Thread Lock take them out 1 at a time apply if soon thread gear say you need 12 hour cure time so put it away for tomorrow.

I took 20 mile ride they work lose strip 3 threads, bought new bolts used Super Glue inside and out.

Also installed 3 M6 x 60 mm thru the cogs with special 1/4" x 1" washers secured by lock nuts and more guie Glue for insurance, suggest you do the same before the shame.

Thanks for that info,I'm not going to install the wheels right away,so I will replace the m5 bolts and loctite them ahead of time.

 

[inspectorcritic]

How are those solid tubes working for you?

First get them in they are soft then squishy its like riding a snake and if you ride a crack the snake begins to slither had a couple of wheel kinks to the side I think it's because I dont have a thin enough wrench to get below lock nut number 2.