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8 spoke wheel

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At last got my hands on a 8 spoke 750 rear wheel for my bike after months of bidding and being outbid.I have the 5 spoke but dont like the look of it.
Stole it from another bidder by 2 quid 112 quid to be exact,it arrived the other day in need of painting or powder coat.
So i begin stripping (the wheel not me )nitromorse burns and dont want to burn the big fella :wink: anyway all paint off and what do you know its had a right ding in it :evil: :evil: and looks like its been prof repaired.(im a little wombles off at this minute)so i decide to take to Kwik fit to see if he could check for true and everything,i see the same guy who has changed tyres onto bike wheels for me before,he looks at me and says cant tell if its true by our balancer or anything like that best thing to do is take it home and roll it alonf your kitchen worktop and check it that way 8O 8O i asked him if he was taking the piss and he was serious,make no wonder my fooking car vibrates like a jack hammer :wink: (still fooked off at this stage take it to my local Honda dealer (where my bike goes for mot and previous services, mechanic tells me it wont pass the mot as all aluminium wheels that are repaired are not road worthy :evil: :evil: if the wheel was painted and he didnt know well thats another story.Anyway conversation went on then he looks in some manual he has and tells me that that ruling has been omitted from the test :lol: :lol: now all i need to do is check for true/runout etc .So he tells me put it on the bike, jack bike up, start bike,set a tyre depth guage at 20 mm, hold the guage onto the edge of the rim from a point on the swingarm, watch the wheel spin and if the guage moves at all i will be able to tell (he says your allowed 2mm of run out) well it only moved 0.5 off a mm :lol: :lol: im really happy at that min,all i need now is the tyre on to see if it holds pressure.Here hoping!!!

ps anyone else with any experience from damaged wheels either using them again or not.
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Post by Jason »

Send it back Alan and get a refund. I send everything back that is crap from ebay only never had one problem, so I went through Paypal and got all my money back. :roll:
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Post by LotusSevenMan »

Alan.
Depends if the guy knew it'd had a ding or someone before him did it eh? I mean, you didn't see it until it was stripped did you?
I personally wouldn't have a problem with a well repaired aluminium wheel. You can always tell a crap job on ali. Half a mm run-out is probably about std from new!!!

Hope it looks like you want it to Alan.
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LotusSevenMan wrote:Alan.
Depends if the guy knew it'd had a ding or someone before him did it eh? I mean, you didn't see it until it was stripped did you?
I personally wouldn't have a problem with a well repaired aluminium wheel. You can always tell a crap job on ali. Half a mm run-out is probably about std from new!!!

Hope it looks like you want it to Alan.
Ive emailed the guy he said he didnt know but wants me to send some pics so we can discuss it further.

He seems quite reasonable about it and said it was for his own bike but never got round to fitting it as he has change it.

I'm not too concerned about it being repaired and am very happy with the amount of run out, if the wheel had been wobbling all over the place it would have been a different story.

And yes very happy with the look now, pics to follow

cheers Jason & LSM
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Personally i say u should send it back anyway.....aint had no exp with repaired wheels myself, but i know i only have 2 and would like to be able to place my full trust in them....VeetyR ( johno )
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Alan,

Give Dave East a bell on 01162848296
He is to wheel repair what Roger is to Firestorms

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I've had a couple done by him over the years and loads of racers use him too.
He'll be able to advise you and if needs be take a look at it
He's only an hour or so down the M1 from Leeds so for the peace of mind I'd say its worth it

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Post by alan »

Hi Ben cheers i will.

I had the wheel fitted today to my tyre and going to take it to my Honda garage again as he says he will be able to check it better when its on the bike.

Heres a few pics of it but you cant really see it: on the edge of the rim it feels slightly bumpy as though its been hammered out,then on the inside edge of the rim there are some marks as though its been rolled or pressed.

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Post by LotusSevenMan »

Sorry Alan,
My PC microscopic examination programme is not working at the moment so I can't see this 'repair' at atomic particle level :roll: ...................... but it looks OK from here!!!! :)
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Post by sirch345 »

Alan,
As you say, it's a hard job to see the extent of the damage in the pic's :!: although you can see the wheel is not as it would have been when new :!:

You say you are going to take Ben's advice which sounds like the best option to me :!:

Good luck with it, and keep us posted,

Cheers,

Chris.
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I said it was hard to see on the pics,anyway took it for balancing today pick it up tomorrow then put it back on bike and take it to my Honda dealer as he his going to check it while on the bike,but ive got a good feeling about it now.

Yesterday i was offered a test ride on a sp2 by the kwik fit manager i know.he bought it and thinks its abit much for him also his wife's nagging him.

does he realize i wont comeback if he gives me the keys :lol: :lol: he's trying to sell it if only i had the funds :roll:
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