In this video, I show the process I like to use these days to repair a dented or dinged bicycle rim. After some minor wheel truing afterwards, the wheel came out pretty straight!
I was doing a wheelie and went to swerve my brother and my back peg caught his rear end rim and it now has an identical dent to the one in the video and thanks to it I don’t have to give him $100 for a new one👍😁
That's great! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment! I appreciate it and it's very rewarding to help share the things I've learned from working on bikes since the 1970's!
Finally got around to fixing and doing some much needed maintenance on my bike after an accident in the fall, one of my first ride out, goofed up my rear rim, I was very annoyed
for anyone that has done this repair, how did it hold up afterwards? was it totally fine after or it did it only buy you a little time before replacing the wheel? asking cause i have the identical problem.
Would it be a good idea to heat up the rim first? Cause when you bend aluminum stock, they always heat it up first. Just wondering if anyone knows if this is a good idea or not ?
Good tip as usual! Happy New Year Joey! Would like to ask you a question in private about a bb replacement if possible. No pressure. Would understand if not possible.
Thank you Denis! Sure, ask away! If you go to the about section of my channel, I believe there’s a link to my email. There’s also a link to my Instagram, and you can send me a private message there as well. Let me know if neither of those work and we’ll figure something else out. Talk to you soon!
Regarding the truing part, were you able to keep the tension consistent compared to pre dented stage? I have a similar dent, however i left the dent alone because the wheel wasnt losing air. However the tensions seemed to be off and the best i can do is get it to a point where there is a little 1 to 2mm wobble on my mtb rim.
Sir, I just want to express my sincere gratitude for this video. I bought an Aventon E-bike, it was great until I hit a curb and bended the rim. Being an E-bike and me living in a country where they are not common no shop wanted to even look at it and Aventon is all out of wheel replacements not that they shipped to my country anyways, so I was in a bit of a predicament you see, until I saw your video. My bike is now fully operational once again after months of running around chasing dead ends! It was simple, clear and very helpful. Thank you sir.
Thanks a lot. My DYU EBikes wheels is made in China. That thing is sofer than cup cakes. It broke just like that. I'm gonna cut it to square shape and try walde it .
Man, thank you. I had an almost identical dent like that on my rear DT Swiss aluminum rim. I knew no bike shop in the city would offer to fix it and this did the trick. Saved me hundreds on a full replacement.
Just had this happen to me on a ride, I was looking at it thinking surely that can be fixed, a quick search and a few minutes later here is my answer! Cheers for the easy solution.😁
