TLDR: Is this rim damage bad? I’m running tubes currently but would this damage make going tubeless an impossibility or compromise the integrity of the rim?
Bike: Stock 2021 Trek Farley 5, Bontrager Gnarwhal tires on Sun Ringlé Mulefüt 80 rims
I recently acquired this 2021 Farley 5 for winter biking. It’s my first fat bike and my only bike newer than 2005. I took it to my local single track trails to break it in. Well I definitely did cause when I slipped off of my front brake lever and ran into a fallen log the rear wheel must have smacked a rock or something and got a bit messed up. Not too bad but enough of a bump on a new bike to send me into that instant shock mode. No noticeable vertical or lateral wobble, just on that side of the rim.
Bike doctors of Reddit do your thing! Diagnosis?
by evann99