alex mx-22 rims

[gorno]

did any one else find that alex mx-22 rims buckled easy??

[anti_pop]

Oh hell yes, My back one came apart at the join and is now a weird sort of shape, heh, and my front one is a twisted mess, Some people say they are alright rims i fricken hated them,

[gorno]

yer the first day they were buckled and now they are just getting worse

[Daver]

mine took a couple of weeks abuse until it wouldn't fit into my forks!!!

[big_pete]

yea gorno ive buckled them alot when i first got them now im trying to take care with them and they still have a buckle in them!

[naz]

ive found they split before they buckle, stupid p.o.s's grrr

[CHEWY]

mine were fine, just keep them true and the spokes properly tensioned and they're pretty strong. ive landed a heap of whips that i didnt straighten back up and nothing ever happened. and they havent split at all..

[Blonde kid on Morphine]

you guys have to keep in mind that the Alex MX-22 rims are the bottom of the line for freestyle riding ...(as Alex rims put it)

after saying that my mates got them on his Norco ryde and he hasn't had any probs with them ......don't bitch about them to much, have you thought that its your riding style thats killing them?.
and don't yell at me i'm not having a go at any of ya's just that from what i've seen they are pretty good for a cheap rim....

[naz]

ye i agree with acid boy....i never buckled my rim it just decided to split at the join....

[Ty]

you guys have to keep in mind that the Alex MX-22 rims are the bottom of the line for freestyle riding ...(as Alex rims put it)

after saying that my mates got them on his Norco ryde and he hasn't had any probs with them ......don't bitch about them to much, have you thought that its your riding style thats killing them?.
and don't yell at me i'm not having a go at any of ya's just that from what i've seen they are pretty good for a cheap rim....

no offence dude, but maybe you should look at the people who are killing these rims, i dare say daver @ 100kgs on his bullit with monster T's goes a little bit bigger and is probably a bit harder on rims than your mate on his norco ryde.


edit: PS i got a solid 3 weeks out of a pair of mx22 before i split the rear.

[Blonde kid on Morphine]

yeah true TY i should have thought about that before i posted but still if your on a bullit why run bottom of the line rims???
you'd want somthing that could handle the stuff you do with out having to worry ......

ok before i cuase more trouble i am only NOW noticing everyone talking about splitting not buckling .....i'll shut up from now on in this thread........

[bazza]

my front mx22 is still running awesome. i have had it on there for about a year now as well and it was 2nd hand when i got it. only a couple of little flat spots and buckles but nothing major. then you go to the back where i have mutulated a sunrims witch ditch (why are they still stocking bike with these??????) then i cracked up my 521 on the rear pretty bad. so ive got nothing really bad to say aabout them. apart from them being really wide and tall and making getting tyres out almost impossbile.

[CHEWY]

hard to get tyres off? maybe it was just the tyres i had, but mine would almost fall off the rims... no shit, i could pull a tyre on and off with my pinkie with no effort

[tj]

both of mine split and now i got 721's :)

[jays_5000]

hard to get tyres off? maybe it was just the tyres i had, but mine would almost fall off the rims... no shit, i could pull a tyre on and off with my pinkie with no effort

Hell yeah, the tires slip on and off so easily!

I had no worried with mine at all! They were great, strong rims.
I had a high pressure running in my tires, could have have something to do with rim life?

[Jordy]

ya can't realli expect mx22's to be a strong rim there just a basic component company's use to keep the price down.... like specialized putting ditchwitch rims on p1's and 2's

[wonderllama]

the one one the back of my bike did its gone now, but i still got the front after a yeasr n a half.

[bazza]

ahherm jordan how about putting the ditch witch on stinkys!!! and kona roasts!!! i mean wtf where kona thinking! btw which alex rims where these? i am pretty sure mine are the mx22 which are the big wide silver ones. mines like a 2001 or less one though.

[sifter]

ahherm jordan how about putting the ditch witch on stinkys!!! and kona roasts!!! i mean wtf where kona thinking! btw which alex rims where these? i am pretty sure mine are the mx22 which are the big wide silver ones. mines like a 2001 or less one though.
ahem, i can take stop motion 5 footers on ditch witches and theyre true as true, you need skill to land properly. it's a poor mechanic who blames his tools.

[CHEWY]

its a poor mechanic who's MX-22s buckle and split too

[wombat]

it's a poor mechanic who blames his tools. Or a poor mechanic who can't afford decent tools.

[5PIDEY]

they are crap, i have them on my 2004 norco ryde and they are buckled front and back. the back even buckled riding down dh tracks just from rimming out. now mine has a flat spot you can feel and wobbles 1cm from side to side. i need a new wheel any ideas?

[wombat]

they are crap, i have them on my 2004 norco ryde and they are buckled front and back. the back even buckled riding down dh tracks just from rimming out. now mine has a flat spot you can feel and wobbles 1cm from side to side. i need a new wheel any ideas?

Rimming out? Do you mean that the rim bashes on the ground through the tyre? Mate, if that's happening it's no bloody wonder you're trashing them!

[5PIDEY]

yeh but this rim out is with fully pumped up tyres from the servo, and they also buckled off a step down.

[wombat]

"fully pumped up"? I presume if you're using a compressor you mean 50-60psi. So you're bashing your wheels hard enough for the rim to make contact with the ground, THROUGH a tyre which is inflated to 60psi, and you wonder why you're killing them???