Phew! That was close.............

"Shaun Rimmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Yesterday lunch, I rode down to the LBS to pick up the other Maxxis Xenith slick for the front
wheel, and put it on as soon as I got back to work.

Checked I was good to go, then whacked in the 80 PSI max and put the wheel back on.

I noticed the brakes were binding, so I adjusted them, span the wheel. It span twice, and started
rubbing again........WTF?!?!? Thunk I, and fiddled some more.........with the same results...

That's when I noticed the braking surface slowly spreading!...

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Seems 15 year old single wall MTB rims don't much care for 80 psi pressures.......

Don't know whether to re-build onto the old hub (Exage) (it's lasted me 15

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years (10 of constant use) with no more than 1 new set of bearings, and 1 new set of cones, and it
holds a certain nostalgia value), or to just buy another cheap (but better than the POS I
'borrowed'😉 wheel, that'll likely cost me much less than new rim, new spokes, new nipples and

(inexperienced)

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wheelbuilding time.....

Sounds like alucky escape indeed. Whatever you decide to do though, you are going to put an old tyre
on the wheel and whack it up to 100psi just to see what gives aren't you??

Steve.

spademan says:

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Sounds like alucky escape indeed.

Indeed!

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Whatever you decide to do though, you are going to put an old tyre on the wheel and whack it up to
100psi just to see what gives aren't you??

Please - and pics, or video............. ;-)

Steve

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"Shaun Rimmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Yesterday lunch, I rode down to the LBS to pick up the other Maxxis

Xenith

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slick for the front wheel, and put it on as soon as I got back to work.

Checked I was good to go, then whacked in the 80 PSI max and put the

wheel

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back on.

I noticed the brakes were binding, so I adjusted them, span the wheel.

It

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span twice, and started rubbing again........WTF?!?!? Thunk I, and

fiddled

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some more.........with the same results...

That's when I noticed the braking surface slowly spreading!...

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Seems 15 year old single wall MTB rims don't much care for 80 psi pressures.......

Don't know whether to re-build onto the old hub (Exage) (it's lasted me

15

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years (10 of constant use) with no more than 1 new set of bearings, and

1

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new set of cones, and it holds a certain nostalgia value), or to just

buy

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another cheap (but better than the POS I 'borrowed'😉 wheel, that'll

likely

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cost me much less than new rim, new spokes, new nipples and

(inexperienced)

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wheelbuilding time.....

Sounds like alucky escape indeed.

Uh - huh...........

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Whatever you decide to do though, you are going to put an old tyre on the wheel and whack it up to
100psi just to

see

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what gives aren't you??

Shaun aRe - P.s., did I mention, if anyone is looking for a 26 x 1.5" slick, to get a Maxxis Xenith,
'cos THEY RULEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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spademan says:

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Sounds like alucky escape indeed.

Indeed!

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Whatever you decide to do though, you are going to put an old tyre on the wheel and whack it up
to 100psi just to

see

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what gives aren't you??

Please - and pics, or video............. ;-)

Yer a pair o' sick MoFo's!

Shaun aRe

sounds familier..a few weeks ago I was about my LBS and he just finished trueing a roadies
rims....pumped the tires and let it set....while he was dealing with me the tube decided to
go....left all of us with an impressionable memory.

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sounds familier..a few weeks ago I was about my LBS and he just finished trueing a roadies
rims....pumped the tires and let it set....while he was dealing with me the tube decided to
go....left all of us with an impressionable memory.

Wouldn't that be an 'indelible' memory? ;^)

Mike - mind like a rubber stamp.

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sounds familier..a few weeks ago I was about my LBS and he just finished trueing a roadies
rims....pumped the tires and let it set....while he was dealing with me the tube decided to
go....left all of us with an impressionable memory.

Ouch!

When I was about 16, I took my cheap roadie style bike into the training centre. Mate of mine who
was there too grew up in a family of roadies. After I fixed the puncture, I got him to inflate the
tyres. He bunged 90 psi in there, just like his dad and big bro' did with theirs.

One our later there's this humongous bang, and the bike shifts itself violently from propped against
wall to lying on ground. The whole place fell into silence and everyone stared over.........

The cheap tyre and (steel) rim combo on that bike were made for 35 psi max. Big earache, new tyre
and tube is what it cost me, but I learned something that day, and so did my mate who got a right
good kickin'. heheheheh............

Shaun aRe

Shaun Rimmer said:

Yesterday lunch, I rode down to the LBS to pick up the other Maxxis Xenith slick for the front
wheel, and put it on as soon as I got back to work.

Checked I was good to go, then whacked in the 80 PSI max and put the wheel back on.

I noticed the brakes were binding, so I adjusted them, span the wheel. It span twice, and started
rubbing again........WTF?!?!? Thunk I, and fiddled some more.........with the same results...

That's when I noticed the braking surface slowly spreading! FFS, I ran for the nearest screwdriver
and rammed it in the valve hole and let all the air pressure out quick as a flash - the rim braking
surface, especially at one side had bent outwards from the centre about 20 deg. or so, much more
and the bead would have popped off with a loud bang and shredding of rubber, most likely.
Alternatively, if I hadn't noticed and it stayed put, it would likely have lost the plot while I
was tearing down a hill at 35+ mph with a bunch of loony car drivers behind me, and seen me
squished, bloody and beaten, if not ever so slightly deceased.

Seems 15 year old single wall MTB rims don't much care for 80 psi pressures.......

Anyhow, got a lift home and threw the tyre on a cheap POS front wheel that was kicking about in the
unit, put the wheel on the bike, and all is good for now.

Don't know whether to re-build onto the old hub (Exage) (it's lasted me 15 years (10 of constant
use) with no more than 1 new set of bearings, and 1 new set of cones, and it holds a certain
nostalgia value), or to just buy another cheap (but better than the POS I 'borrowed'😉 wheel,
that'll likely cost me much less than new rim, new spokes, new nipples and (inexperienced)
wheelbuilding time.....

Shaun aRe

P.s. - The beater flies with these tyres on! (Hardly surprising). Just wish my (new and unpatched)
tubes didn't lose ~10 psi a day at these pressures.......

I'm glad you're okay, you had me worried for a minute. I knew you'd pull through.

Peace, Bill

The mind serves properly as a window glass rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind should give
an immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world.
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Bill W says:

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I knew you'd
pull through.

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I'm glad you're okay, you had me worried for a minute. I knew you'd pull through.

I'm glad he's OK too, coz you (Bill) had me worried when I read your piece above and mentally heard
"pull out" instead of "pull through"

Steve mind in the gutter, brain in the clouds......

Bill Wheeler <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Shaun Rimmer said:

Yesterday lunch, I rode down to the LBS to pick up the other Maxxis

Xenith

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slick for the front wheel, and put it on as soon as I got back to work.

Checked I was good to go, then whacked in the 80 PSI max and put the

wheel

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back on.

I noticed the brakes were binding, so I adjusted them, span the wheel. It span twice, and started
rubbing again........WTF?!?!? Thunk I, and

fiddled

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some more.........with the same results...

That's when I noticed the braking surface slowly spreading! FFS, I ran

for

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the nearest screwdriver and rammed it in the valve hole and let all the

air

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pressure out quick as a flash - the rim braking surface, especially at

one

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side had bent outwards from the centre about 20 deg. or so, much more and the bead would have
popped off with a loud bang and shredding of rubber, most likely. Alternatively, if I hadn't
noticed and it stayed put, it

would

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likely have lost the plot while I was tearing down a hill at 35+ mph with

a

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bunch of loony car drivers behind me, and seen me squished, bloody and beaten, if not ever so
slightly deceased.

Seems 15 year old single wall MTB rims don't much care for 80 psi pressures.......

Anyhow, got a lift home and threw the tyre on a cheap POS front wheel

that

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was kicking about in the unit, put the wheel on the bike, and all is good for now.

Don't know whether to re-build onto the old hub (Exage) (it's lasted me

15

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years (10 of constant use) with no more than 1 new set of bearings, and 1 new set of cones, and
it holds a certain nostalgia value), or to just buy another cheap (but better than the POS I
'borrowed'😉 wheel, that'll

likely

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cost me much less than new rim, new spokes, new nipples and

(inexperienced)

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wheelbuilding time.....

Shaun aRe

P.s. - The beater flies with these tyres on! (Hardly surprising). Just

wish

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my (new and unpatched) tubes didn't lose ~10 psi a day at these pressures.......

I'm glad you're okay, you had me worried for a minute. I knew you'd pull through.

Heheheheh - yeah, thanks Preacher, I knew you believed in me ',;~}~

Shaun aRe - Traffic on my commute-route is back up to 'manic' levels after the hol season ;-(

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Heheheheh - yeah, thanks Preacher, I knew you believed in me ',;~}~

It's pretty funny that you call me Preacher....If you only knew why. (to long to get into)

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Shaun aRe - Traffic on my commute-route is back up to 'manic' levels after the hol season ;-(

No kidding, it's nuts here now trying to get in a good road trip after work.

Peace, Bill

The mind serves properly as a window glass rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind should give
an immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world.
:-]

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Shaun Rimmer said:

Heheheheh - yeah, thanks Preacher, I knew you believed in me ',;~}~

It's pretty funny that you call me Preacher....If you only knew why. (to long to get into)

You got my E-mail ',;~}~

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Shaun aRe - Traffic on my commute-route is back up to 'manic' levels

after

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the hol season ;-(

No kidding, it's nuts here now trying to get in a good road trip after work.

Sucks, dunnit?!?

Like I posted here before, my route into work is a narrow road, up one side of a big hill, then down
the other. Car commuters take it to avoid the busy main road with a lower speed limit, and they
hammer around the roads like lead footed flat out lunatic [censored] (a few close calls already).

I don't know WTF I'm gonna do when winter sets in (the road is a _major_ black ice hazard, with
numerous crashes each winter) and it gets dark up

see me than usual, and if someone behind me loses it on ice......). To be honest, I'm scared witless
just at the thought, and I don't scare easy.

Shaun aRe - Maybe I should get back on a mo'bike............