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Icefox -> RE: 954 rim fix or buy new? (1/30/2008 6:35:01 PM)
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Here is a picture of my wheel after I hit a pretty good sized rock that was in the middle of the road (for whatever reason), anyways the tire would not hold air and I thought that I was going to have to scrap the wheel. I looked into buying a used wheel from someone on eBay or someone that was parting out a bike on different forums but I was skeptical because I could not look at the wheel in person before I bought it. I heard of wheel repair shops and I found Wheel Works http://www.wheel-works.com , they are based out of California and get wheels shipped to them from customers all over the country for repairs. They charged me 160.00 to repair my wheel (re-bend and balance it both vertically and horizontally) so there is no wobble even at 150+ and you can barely see where the bend used to be. I'm sure they could re-bend a chromed wheel because they do Harley stuff too, but I'm sure you could just call and ask them about it. They told me they have never had a wheel that had been repaired ever come back from breaking, but I'm sure that any type of re-bending would weaken the metal a little bit. Just another option for you to consider that may cause less damage to the wheel than a rubber mallet or whatever you might try to use to pound out the bend!
[image]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/mseaston84/wheel.jpg[/image]
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