Doing some checks on a mates bike and found this pretty odd bit of damage, the wheel still runs true, spoke tension is fine and from the outside no damage is visible, would you trust it to ride on?
by dinnerwithskinner
Doing some checks on a mates bike and found this pretty odd bit of damage, the wheel still runs true, spoke tension is fine and from the outside no damage is visible, would you trust it to ride on?
by dinnerwithskinner
15 Comments
Nah that needs to be retired
There will be flats
odd bit of damage? Dude this man used a screwdriver to get his tire off… More than once. Light rides will be fine, but it will continue to crack and one day get all around.
It’s aluminium and its damaged. It will look OK until suddenly it isn’t
Had a wheel that got a nail in it and continued to puncture the rim, like in the same place just different angles. Def need to put something there to protect that area, def replace rim strip, but, still ridable. It def looks like a screwdriver to get the tire off though, especially with the rubbing on the side there.
The rim will be a bit weaker at this spot but you could use it a lower pressures.
Make shure there is no sharp edges if you run innertubes.
I would ride that with low-pressure tires only. But I’d never suggest someone else do so. The higher the tire pressure the more likely you are to cause the damage to propagate – and a split at the rim bed is a nasty failure.
Fine short term, but needs to be replaced ASAP.
And I can almost guarantee this was caused by a metal tire lever. That’s exactly the shape [these bad boys ](https://www.parktool.com/en-int/product/heavy-duty-steel-tire-lever-set-tl-5)rip in aluminum rims regularly.
I’d tape it and ride tubeless, wouldn’t run a tube in there though.
Nope
Retire the wheel before it retires the rider.
I already have one fake tooth and can’t afford another. No.
No, it’s done. Rim tape won’t reliably seal that and a tube will fill in that space and get punctured
Maybe you can get it welded, if you have a friend who can do it for free? Not sure if it’s worth to spend money to try and fix it.
Do you have dental insurance?