Scored Rims

bucketbanger
bucketbanger Posts: 142
edited May 2008 in Workshop
My shitty shimano brake pads have ever so lightly scored my rims, leaving a few rough areas on my rims.

Any advice on the best way to smooth theses rough areas out.

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  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    fine wet and dry?

    it's not the blocks that are the problem - it's the small pieces of metal they pick up off the rim, during braking. You have to pick them out regularly otherwise you'l quickly destroy your rims.

    I'm servicing a mate's bike at the moment and he's been braking with metal in his blocks for about a year - oblivious to the fact that it is both noisy and damaging.

    He'll soon pay attention when I tell him his rims are now shot and he'll have to fork out a hundred quid for some new ones.... :shock:
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  • bucketbanger
    bucketbanger Posts: 142
    maddog 2 wrote:
    fine wet and dry?

    it's not the blocks that are the problem - it's the small pieces of metal they pick up off the rim, during braking. You have to pick them out regularly otherwise you'l quickly destroy your rims.

    I'm servicing a mate's bike at the moment and he's been braking with metal in his blocks for about a year - oblivious to the fact that it is both noisy and damaging.

    He'll soon pay attention when I tell him his rims are now shot and he'll have to fork out a hundred quid for some new ones.... :shock:

    Yeah i know its the small metal pieces off the rims that the pads pick up that cause the said damage, maybe ive been unlucky but my last 2 sets of Shimano pads have been real shocking for having metal embedded in them.

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