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Hey all,

I have been searching sometime now (over 8 months) for 14" speedy dessert rats to replace the mine and have almost given up. It seems that although my super tough MY series will easily withstand flying in excess of 5 metres through the air and landing on sand or dirt (dirt is scary) but the rims just won't take that kind of extreme abuse as they have become very bent from doing this WAY too many times and now shake at speeds in excess of 80kmh.

Does anyone know any tricks for straightening them, I tried it with a hammer and block of metal in the theory they couldn't get any worse but unfortunately they didn't get any better either.

Cheers in advance

You can fix the lip easily enough but the whole rim can buckle and i'm not sure what you can do about that. Proffesional wheel repairers wil fix them for about $90 per rim, but any bob jane or similar tyre place can get new rims in for you for about $60-80 ea depending on their mood.

lincolnthemod wrote:Hey all,

I have been searching sometime now (over 8 months) for 14" speedy dessert rats to replace the mine and have almost given up. It seems that although my super tough MY series will easily withstand flying in excess of 5 metres through the air and landing on sand or dirt (dirt is scary) but the rims just won't take that kind of extreme abuse as they have become very bent from doing this WAY too many times and now shake at speeds in excess of 80kmh.

Does anyone know any tricks for straightening them, I tried it with a hammer and block of metal in the theory they couldn't get any worse but unfortunately they didn't get any better either.

Cheers in advance

Are you serious? 5m thru the air??? hahaha

& the rims are bent? Nooo...i dont believe it

Seriously, i would LOVE to see footage of that lol

nachaluva wrote:Are you serious? 5m thru the air??? hahaha

& the rims are bent? Nooo...i dont believe it

Seriously, i would LOVE to see footage of that lol

+1 for the footage

I have bent one of my steel rims on the Foz.... hit a pot hole sideways on a gravel road being an idiot with let down tyres

Taza

i got my 14" desert rat rim repaired at a rim repair place $50 coz it was a steel rim its easy for them.