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Have you ever owned a vehicle with wire spoke wheels? If they are like the motorcycles I've owned, you have maintenance to do on them every so often. I suspect they'll need to also be 'tuned' ever so often to get all the spokes at the correct/same tension on them.
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Once knew a guy that all he did was tune up spoked motorcycle rims for a living and apparently there was enough work to live on, in fact I had him do mine. My bike was a basket case when I got it, it was a mess. I tried respoking the rims, made up a jig and put a dial indicator on it trying to get them straight, I failed. I spent 2 months working on them before I found the fella that could do it correctly. It took him a solid day to get them perfectly true and tensioned correctly but he knew what he was doing.
Personally I would only put them on a trailered show only car or have a 2d set of rims and only put them on when showing the car, just because of the potential issues running spokes on the street. They do look cool, but if I honestly wanted something like that on the street I'd look into steel rims with spoked hubcaps. Personally I'd rather drive the car than spend so much time having the rims worked on.
My 2 cents.
Personally I would only put them on a trailered show only car or have a 2d set of rims and only put them on when showing the car, just because of the potential issues running spokes on the street. They do look cool, but if I honestly wanted something like that on the street I'd look into steel rims with spoked hubcaps. Personally I'd rather drive the car than spend so much time having the rims worked on.
My 2 cents.
Last edited by hcbph; Jul 10, 2019 at 09:12 AM.
