04-17-2019, 06:57 PM | #1 |
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Potholes...again.
Yeap, my front wheel took a hit again. What got damaged is surprising though. The rim is perfectly fine, well mostly. It has a teeny little flat spot on the lips that can be formed back with ease. No, what was more interesting was the fact that I had 3 spoke nuts fail by stripping out the threads.
So the damage is. The tire is screwed - but it somehow saved the rim. Thankfully I spent the extra 12 bucks on roadhazard, so new tire woo!. 3 spokes and spoke nuts are bad, I went ahead and ordered 36 spoke nuts (20 cents a pop, why not - reasoning below) and a handful of spokes (just in case) from CSC. New tube on the way too, obviously. I have never had a failure like this before. Usually the rim eats it pretty hard in the process. I can only assume that I may have potentially over tightened said spoke nuts and they were just waiting for the chance to fail. That is the reason I ordered 36 of them, just to be safe. I am going to relace and true the front wheel. Thankfully, CSC offers 2 day priority mail shipping so I should have them here by Friday. Even if that wasn't the case, better safe than sorry. I already have the rim off the hub, and it's not warped or bent at all aside from the damage on the lip on each side. I guess I should be thankful that I didn't crash, and the total repair cost is only about $45. Beats having to buy a new wheel. On the plus side, my front suspension took it like a champ! Didn't even bottom out lol.
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04-17-2019, 07:35 PM | #2 |
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You must be getting old and your reflexes are getting too slow to dodge the pot holes. Glad you didn't get hurt though buddy.
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04-17-2019, 10:49 PM | #5 |
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I'm actually shocked, no pun, how well my rims have held up against everything I've run into on the road and fake off-road along the railroads. I do stand up on our very narrow pegs, but the hawk still surprises me often.
Good thing because I don't have a spoke wrench, anymore. I did very bad things to my redline 720 rims as a stupid kid. ��
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04-17-2019, 11:15 PM | #6 |
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First, I’m glad you’re okay.
But second, do you think this damage would have also happened on a “name brand” dirt bike? I mean no disrespect. I’m just trying to determine if this was a cheap Chinese steel issue vs. really bad luck and the damage would have occurred no matter what bike you were on? |
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For starters, any steel rim would have bent under the impact in question. The pothole I failed to avoid also took out the front AND rear tires on a city bus. I am pleasantly surprised how well they took it considering my last Hawk front wheel vs. pothole encounter ended in a pretzel shape. Maybe I managed to get one of the good ones lol. Secondly, the parts that actually broke, the spoke nuts, are plated brass, not steel. It's no surprise that the threads on them stripped instead of the steel spokes. I am actually glad of that, because the spoke nuts are 20 cents each. You can replace all 36 of them for less than 8 bucks if you needed to.
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04-18-2019, 02:30 AM | #9 |
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Megadan, you're a gentleman as you are through. Re-true your rims and for god sakes, pick the middle of the road. �� I never find potholes in the middle. Lol
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04-18-2019, 02:48 AM | #10 |
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Come to Omaha and experience something new lol.
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