nooooo

brownix

about half of my spokes has come out of my wheel when i landed off a jump
my wheel has gone out of true and it wont turn

AND
i was suppossed to go to dalby tommorow

noooo

how much do you think it would cost to fix at the lbs

supersonic

A new wheel!

To rebuild the wheel on a new rim looking at 20 quid build cost, plus spokes and the rim.

Your rim is dead!

brownix

what :shock:

supersonic

If you have trashed it as bad as you say, to a point where you cant even turn the wheel, you need a new rim. And spokes.

Mancunianfightingcat

what wheel is it?

when you say the spokes have come out, how do you mean?

are they straight pull spokes that have simply un-hooked at the hub or have they ripped out of the rim?

Mancunianfightingcat

post some pictures!

brownix

will do

the wheel cant move because its against the frame because its out of true

and the spokes have ripped out the rim

Mancunianfightingcat

I'm afraid I'll have to agree with SSonic, it sounds in a bad way if you've ripped the spokes out of the rim!

brownix

oh no!

supersonic

Deader than a dead thing, on a particularly dark day in deadsville.

brownix

ill take it down to the shop tommorow and theyll have a look

if its as bad as you say








im in the market for a new wheel

andrewjoseph

you may be able to use the same axle though. depending on what you want, a new wheel may be cheaper than rebuidling.

brownix

yeah im looking at the mtx camo rim (is it good??)
i will keep my hub

supersonic

What hub you got?

Can't go wrong with mavic rims really.

hucking_fell

brownix wrote:

yeah im looking at the mtx camo rim (is it good??)
i will keep my hub

I've got a 24" Sunn MTX rim on the rear of my Bighit which has been fine for 3 years of downhilling. The strength of the wheel depends mostly on how well the wheel is built though. Mine came from ChainReaction.

Tank-slapper

supersonic wrote:

Deader than a dead thing, on a particularly dark day in deadsville.

lol, is it worse than that, he's dead jim?

brownix

yeah woo

ive just taken it to the bike shop
there having a look at it and replacing about 10 spokes
should be ready at 3.00pm

whyamihere

Er, that won't be safe. Spokes normally break at the elbow. If they've been ripped out of the rim as you say, then the rim is damaged. Also, if 10 spokes are being replaced, the integrity of the wheel will be compromised greatly. It will fail again, hard.

supersonic

Yes, I have to agree.

Difficult to say without looking of course, but from what you said, ripping spokes out of the rim is fatal, and not been able to turn the wheel due to the warp is usually fatal too.

At the minimum needs a full rebuild.

KnightofCydonia

I remember the day I folded a wheel off my old bike and took it into the shop, like a pancake shape and jokingly asked "can you fix this" With wheels, you get what you pay for and if what come with my new bike break, i'll use the experts like Merlin time & time again.