bought this real wheel recently, relubricated the hubs and just saw these rather huge cracks at the spoke nipples while trueing the wheel. I guess the Rim is not usable anymore right? Or could you still ride that thing?
by muskelmonika
bought this real wheel recently, relubricated the hubs and just saw these rather huge cracks at the spoke nipples while trueing the wheel. I guess the Rim is not usable anymore right? Or could you still ride that thing?
by muskelmonika
19 Comments
You can ride anything. The question here is wether you should. And the answer is hard no.
I would not ride it, it’s clearly compromised. And when aluminum starts to crack, it tends to keep doing so potentially violently. You risk the wheel completely falling apart while riding.
It’s going to have you experience a castrophic failure in due time. Is it worth it? Imagine worst case scenarios like riding downhill at full speed and have front wheel collapse.
If I absolutely had to ride this (e.g. to a shop), I would only do so with speeds I am comfortable to crash at. Probably I would not do it with front wheel at all.
Yikess
This is called “failure with warning,” OP. YMWV!
No sorry you can’t
Only if you have no wife or kids. You can do a lot more stupid stuff if that’s the case.
only if you have really good dental insurance
Rim is dead I’m afraid. If you ride it be prepared for the rim to fail
You can’t ride it for long, your wheel won’t be true and odds are if you try to compensate for that one spoke, you’ll just end up having other similar failures elsewhere. The fact that you have multiple cracks indicates that this wheel has already started down that road.
You can… Until it breaks.
No.
Somehow it’s a very common question on this subreddit. In general it’s surprising how many “Can I keep riding this?“ posts we have.
Comparatively very few “How do I change the bearings on this hub?“ or “What type of bottom bracket do I need?”.
Buy a new wheel right now. If you have to wait a week for the new wheel to come in, I would continue riding it. But I wouldn’t just keep riding it with no plan in motion.
Check rule #4.
TLDR: If you love your life or your teeth, no. Don’t ride ’em.
I would probably ride this a couple k home or to the shop if I had to, but other than that I would not
I found mine looking like that at the beginning of my 1000+ mile tour in the UK. I kept a close eye on them, and made it through. I replaced them when I got home.
I lucked out. I still say no.
Yeah, uh, naw.
Sorry but it’s a gonner
Ive had a rim with multiple splits, even alond the rim wall, i carried on using it for a few months whilst waiting on the replacment. But ye fefo order a new one