Airfoil vs Alloy

leeman180 said:

*I noticed Darren Bedford sells cokers with an alloy rim instead of
the stock steel rim. Does anyone know how these are different than the
steel rims that have the udc wide hub, and the airfoil rim? Stronger?
Weaker?

How strong really is the airfoil rim? has it been broken?

-Lee *

TWNR has us smashing a Airfoil rim over and over to try and roll/smash
over something (a fine Rolling Trials line for HCR!)

It's very strong

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Brian MacKenzie said:

*TWNR has us smashing a Airfoil rim over and over to try and
roll/smash over something (a fine Rolling Trials line for HCR!)

It's very strong *

You are good, Brian! Answering the question and doing marketing for
your vid at the same time. I like it! By the way, I'll be getting a
copy of TWNR, just am waiting to see if I'll be at Motorama or Ray's and
be able to pick up one. If I get to Ray's, I'll need an autographed
copy.

I have heard over and over again that the airfoil is stronger. I am
riding a standard rim and have looked at many airfoils. Easy to see the
higher quality in the airfoil. An airfoil is on my upgrade list.

Bill

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This is a very interesting development that Coker is now making an alloy
rim. I hope it replaces the steel rim. Almost anything would be better
than the steel rim. We'll have to find out more about the Coker alloy
rim. What kind of cross-section does it have? How wide is it? Right
now we don't know much about it at all.

The Airfoil rim is a downhill rim. It's big, wide, and beefy. It looks
a lot like the 'Arrow Racing DH rim'
(http://www.arrowracing.com/rims/dhx.html). Hmmmm... Could it in fact
be an Arrow Racing DH rim? 😉 It's a strong rim.

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My take on it was that unicycle.com buys the alloy rims from whoever
distributes them and sells them under the name "airfoil."

Maybe Darren buys and sells the same rims but just calls them alloy
rims. I haven't looked at his price list lately. Does he sell both
Airfoil and Alloy rims?

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I believed that uni.com had them commissioned.

TheObieOne3226 said:

*My take on it was that unicycle.com buys the alloy rims from whoever
distributes them and sells them under the name "airfoil."

Maybe Darren buys and sells the same rims but just calls them alloy
rims. I haven't looked at his price list lately. Does he sell both
Airfoil and Alloy rims? *

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