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Originally Posted by upgasgas1224
and people wondered why i wanted to switch to excel rims or something better than stock because this steel garbage bends to easy.
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Originally Posted by JerryHawk250
I agree. I would replace them with a better quality aluminum rim before buying the OEM ones. I've been lucky so far. Also get in the habit of checking and maintaining the spokes will help prevent spokes from breaking.
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While you will not hear a peep out of me disagreeing with the stock rims and spokes being fairly wimptastic, I also remind myself to look at the picture of both fork tubes being pretty well bent as well. Considering how hard that impact was, that wheel came out pretty well.