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Entertaining Rim Drilling


Backgren

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Right, I was bored last night. When talking to Felix Mücke he showed me a photo of his rim he had filed squares in and told me he did it when he was bored. So, I got out in the shed starting to drill :lol:

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What do you think? Anyway, it's random. And I did it last night between 11pm and 3am using a 3.5mm drill and a few small files. The rest of the holes are 13mm. /Peter

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helllllllllllloooooooooo stress cracks

but better than most home drillings*

*NOTE: this is not a dodgy type of porn

Lmao

Nice one Backgren, looks sweet, and people will be able to tell you out from the crowd!

Im lovin' Felix's drillings too, they look pretty awesome. I wonder how both your rims will hold up.

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Did I remove the pins that hold the rim together, or what? :)

Seriously, one small hole for the valve won't make a difference.

Very cunning Felix, making the valve hole the same as all the other square ones, and using the join as the new valve hole, very clever :lol:

Adam

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Waste of a DX32 that is ^^ :)

The rim has been ground loads of times and is quite easy to dent now; I would never do that to a rim which isn't almost dead anyway... :)

PS. Stress cracks... I don't know yet, will be interesting to find out :santa:

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What 16" of snow, a drill, a file and boredom can do to your rim:

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Surely the amount of rim tape you'll be using to stop the buldge of the inner tubes on this rim.... kinda cancels out the weight you've saved??? I'm all for drilled rims, but surely theres a limit to what rim tape can do? :lol:

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Surely the amount of rim tape you'll be using to stop the buldge of the inner tubes on this rim.... kinda cancels out the weight you've saved??? I'm all for drilled rims, but surely theres a limit to what rim tape can do? :P

Undrilled rim: 790g

normal rim tape: 20g

drilled rim: 610g

duct tape to cover holes: 25g

You do the math!

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I had my disc punched out with custom lettering, so kind of similar to what you're doing. And then it snapped. Where the capital E was, there was a really weak point.

Hope replaced it on warranty and it ended up on my XC bike which has twin DH4's. And then the other day I noticed a rubbing and low and behold - it had snapped on the E again!

It should still last. Last time I was riding trials on it, an inch section snapped of the disc. Then eventually the whole disc just tore off. Snapped every single arm on it!

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