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Deep Section Rear Wheel Rim Damage

  • 25-08-2015 3:45pm
    #1
    harringtonp
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    Hi,

    Picked up a buckle in a Planet X 60mm rear clincher on Sunday (hit an almighty pothole in the Wexford 2 day) and when my LBS went to straighten it they found that there are small cracks in the rim around the loose spokes and reckon tightening them would pull them through.

    Rang Planet X UK and they want to sell me a new wheel telling me a rim would cost as much as a good deal. Wheel is a couple of weeks over 3 years old so out of warranty.

    Anybody know if I have options other than binning ?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    endacl
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    If you drove a car over a pothole and damaged it to the extent that it needed replacing I'd be writing to Wexford CC. They have been known to pay out for that kind if stuff. Can't see why it'd be any different for a bike wheel. Certainly can't hurt to give it a go. Pothole repair is their responsibility, and for just the reason you've outlined. They're dangerous, and they cause expensive damage.


  • #3
    cython
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    endacl wrote: »
    If you drove a car over a pothole and damaged it to the extent that it needed replacing I'd be writing to Wexford CC. They have been known to pay out for that kind if stuff. Can't see why it'd be any different for a bike wheel. Certainly can't hurt to give it a go. Pothole repair is their responsibility, and for just the reason you've outlined. They're dangerous, and they cause expensive damage.

    Typically councils will only accept liability for damage to car wheels if it can be demonstrated that there was a bodged repair, or it can be proven that they knew about it and did not fix it in a reasonable time frame (e.g. someone telling them about it for the first time 2 hours before the race in this instance would not be a reasonable time frame). In these scenarios there is an argument of negligence on their part, while if neither of these happens they'll typically shrug their shoulders that "we didn't know about it, so how could we be expected to fix it?" I'd imagine they would treat this similarly.


  • #4
    harringtonp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭harringtonp


    Interesting guys but I meant options in terms of rim repair.

    All I know about this particular pothole was that it was long and narrow and somewhere on the Enniscorthy to New Ross road. Thats not much info to go to a council with


  • #5
    sullzz
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    harringtonp wrote: »
    Hi,

    Picked up a buckle in a Planet X 60mm rear clincher on Sunday (hit an almighty pothole in the Wexford 2 day) and when my LBS went to straighten it they found that there are small cracks in the rim around the loose spokes and reckon tightening them would pull them through.

    Rang Planet X UK and they want to sell me a new wheel telling me a rim would cost as much as a good deal. Wheel is a couple of weeks over 3 years old so out of warranty.

    Anybody know if I have options other than binning ?

    Thanks
    I had a similar issue with a rear cosmic wheel , but i dont recall hitting a pothole , i just noticed the wheel developed a slight buckle , to replace the rim and rebuild it would have cost me 300 euro , I decided against this and sold the front wheel separately and bought a new set , the comics were a few years old so there was always the possibility of it happening to the front wheel.


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