ideas for a bent front wheel
 

so i was riding to pothmadog with some mates when a guy on a street triple decided he'd overtake, 2 corners later he run wide (luckily onto a grass run off area. somehow he managed to knock 1/2 a breeze block onto the road with loads of grass, as i was heavily breaking to stop and see if he was okay i hit the bloody breeze block! its only a slight bent on the left hand side of the rim, but you can see the tyre moving out of line slightly when you spin the wheel.

not sure weather to let the pressure out the tyre an get the hammer an block of wood out, or get it professionally done. i do use the edges of the tyre when riding :D

what do you think?

Sam

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

heres some pics of the triple (my wheels not this bent)
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...man/ponty1.jpg
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...sman/pont2.jpg
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...man/ponty3.jpg

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

Ouch hope the guys ok. And it's a Speed not a Street, still made a bliddy mess though :-(

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

that'll be why it says speed on it :?:

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

I'm sure that Wylies would fix that.

When did you go Porthmadog? Today?

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

nah, about a month ago

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

to be honest the bead on modern wheels is so important, I'd get it professionally done myself, it's really not worth taking the risk of it letting you down under load.

Cheers Mark

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

We hammer out car alloys with rubber mallets or a normal hammer and a block of wood, but be careful a few have cracked. As Mark says above, it wont be perfect again, it wont balance very well and could still cause your tyre to leak air around the rim. I wouldn't risk it on a bike, only a car and even then depends how badly damaged it is.

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

+1

Ouch!:shaking2:

Re: ideas for a bent front wheel
 

can you aford a second hand or new one ? if so try and sort it your self then if it cracks buy a new/second hand one