Hit a pot-hole

George Hauxwell said:

Hi,
I was out cycling the rural lanes this morning when I noticed a Landrover
which was travelling towards me come to an abrupt halt. My focus was on the
Landrover which had stopped and not on the road surface as it should have
been when I hit this big pot-hole. I carried on down the lane until I came
to a junction and applied the brakes, I knew something was wrong with the
back wheel at this point. A quick check revealed a small 'ding' or outer
dent on the rim where the tyre meets the alloy.
I'm using 1.5 Schwalbe City Jets and pumping them up to their maximum 85psi,
could this weaken the rim?

Is it an easy task to put this right or is the wheel well-and-truly
'buggered'?

26" Mavic rim with Shimano LX hub

Thanks

George

Take a photograph of wheel and pothole and threaten to sue the local
council :-)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

My focus was on the
Landrover which had stopped and not on the road surface as it should have
been when I hit this big pot-hole.

Take a photograph of wheel and pothole and threaten to sue the local
council :-)

There was a large degree of contributary negligence here on his own
admission. Nice to get compensation but not so nice for the other council
services facing cuts due to the payouts caused by the bugeoning compensation
culture.

in message <[email hidden]>, George Hauxwell

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Hi,
I was out cycling the rural lanes this morning when I noticed a
Landrover which was travelling towards me come to an abrupt halt. My
focus was on the Landrover which had stopped and not on the road
surface as it should have been when I hit this big pot-hole. I carried
on down the lane until I came to a junction and applied the brakes, I
knew something was wrong with the back wheel at this point. A quick
check revealed a small 'ding' or outer dent on the rim where the tyre
meets the alloy. I'm using 1.5 Schwalbe City Jets and pumping them up
to their maximum 85psi, could this weaken the rim?

A dinged rim means your tyres are too soft, not too hard. If the tyre is
hard enough it cannot possibly compress enough for the rim to hit the
road.

Quoted message said:

Is it an easy task to put this right or is the wheel well-and-truly
'buggered'?

Hard to tell without seeing it. Take it to your local bike shop for
their opinion.

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vernon levy said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

My focus was on the
Landrover which had stopped and not on the road surface as it should have
been when I hit this big pot-hole.

Take a photograph of wheel and pothole and threaten to sue the local
council :-)

There was a large degree of contributary negligence here on his own
admission. Nice to get compensation but not so nice for the other council
services facing cuts due to the payouts caused by the bugeoning compensation
culture.

I have lost two sets of wheels to potholes in the last five years. The
local council will only pay compensation if it is 1, a major road and
2, the pothole has been reported to them before you hit it. Twice I
got nowt.

Stan Cox

George Hauxwell said:

Hi,
I was out cycling the rural lanes this morning when I noticed a
Landrover which was travelling towards me come to an abrupt halt. My
focus was on the Landrover which had stopped and not on the road
surface as it should have been when I hit this big pot-hole. I
carried on down the lane until I came to a junction and applied the
brakes, I knew something was wrong with the back wheel at this point.
A quick check revealed a small 'ding' or outer dent on the rim where
the tyre meets the alloy.
I'm using 1.5 Schwalbe City Jets and pumping them up to their maximum
85psi, could this weaken the rim?

No.

There's a chance you might have had a slow puncture before the incident
9without realising it), which allowed the rim to get dented. Otherwise
rims usually just go out of true or get larger buckles without any small
distinct dents, in my experience with major potholes when tyres are pumped
up hard.

Quoted message said:

Is it an easy task to put this right or is the wheel well-and-truly
'buggered'?

The rim might be buggered, might not. It's sometimes possible to bend a
ding back, though it's difficult to get the braking surface perfect if
it's been affected.

The whole wheel won't be buggered, though. The rim can be replaced by
taping a new rim besides wheel and swapping spokes over one at a time,
then retentioning and trueing the wheel. The first part of that requires
almost no skill and will save on bike shop labour charges. The rim needs
to be the same model or have the same "effective rim diameter".

Quoted message said:

26" Mavic rim with Shimano LX hub

LX hub is worth saving (if in good condition) and there's no need to
replace the spokes.

~PB

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:27:28 -0000, "George Hauxwell"
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

I'm using 1.5 Schwalbe City Jets and pumping them up to their maximum 85psi,
could this weaken the rim?

No. I don't know of any rim that can't handle that pressure. I run
my tyres at 120psi!

Quoted message said:

Is it an easy task to put this right or is the wheel well-and-truly
'buggered'?

Probably stuffed, to be honest, but you can sue the council. Which
Mavic is it?

Guy
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Simon Brooke said:

A dinged rim means your tyres are too soft, not too hard. If the tyre is
hard enough it cannot possibly compress enough for the rim to hit the
road.

Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne? on country lanes? with hard, fully
pumped-up tyres? at this time of year? Has no-one thought of the
consequences?

d.

vernon levy said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

My focus was on the
Landrover which had stopped and not on the road surface as it should have
been when I hit this big pot-hole.

Take a photograph of wheel and pothole and threaten to sue the local
council :-)

There was a large degree of contributary negligence here on his own
admission.

Contributary negligence?? There a f...... great hole in the road that
we all pay hundereds of pounds in Council Taxes, and other taxes in
order that such roads can be maintained and not have big holes in
them.

Quoted message said:

Nice to get compensation but not so nice for the other council
services facing cuts due to the payouts caused by the bugeoning compensation
culture.

Then don't leave big holes in your local roads.

back to my original sentence :-)

A dinged rim means your tyres are too soft, not too hard. If the tyre is

Quoted message said:

hard enough it cannot possibly compress enough for the rim to hit the
road.

Pumped them up too maximum stated pressure of 85 psi just before leaving
this morning.
I do this about once a week because they loose a bit during this period.
Checked the pressure a few minutes ago and still reads above 80 psi and I've
still got a dent in the rim.

George