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Is this wheel bad?
Plastique wrote: Sorry if this is not a real techie question, but I know next to nothing about bikes. I was replacing a tire on a wheel, looks aluminum?, On the wheel is a label that says: WOLBER MODEL 56 Super Champion. The flat was a small hole on the side of the tube that faces the rim. So I carefully checked for burrs, etc on the wheel and guess what I found? Right in the middle of the label is what looks like a crack, a very thin line that unlike most cracks is perfectly in on line-the crack or is it a seam? goes completely across the rim, but I did not check under the label. It's a seam. But I would caution against using kevlar bead tires on this rim. It's a nice rim-I've got a few-but does not have a hook bead. Wire bead tires are fine. Phil Brown |
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