I just recieved a box again!

[Emile.m]

Hey guys, I just recieved my stock from Renegade! yup yup, already! I'm excited. The rim is so wide!! and light!

Here are a few pics! (Click on the pic for bigger picture)







I'll go build that wheel today and/or tomorrow.

I'll write a review on this rim (from AlexDX32 to Try-all)

-Émile

EDIT: I'm just wating for the KH 08 frame to put my clamp on :P

[manon1wheel]

youll love the extra support the wide rim gives you. it will be way harder to fold.
good luck!

[Any Terrain]

Cool! So you are going purple... better then plain black (or are you building up a new uni?)

[maximus unius]

Nice. Thats one upgrade I really need to make. Alex DX rims suck for trials.

[Emile.m]

Originally Posted by Any Terrain

Cool! So you are going purple... better then plain black (or are you building up a new uni?)

Just going purple.

Originally Posted by manon1wheel

youll love the extra support the wide rim gives you. it will be way harder to fold.
good luck!

Yeah. I tried a wide rim once, it's awesome!!

Originally Posted by MaximumUnius

Nice. Thats one upgrade I really need to make. Alex DX rims suck for trials.

Definitly

[oneisenough]

Nice, I think I may be getting one when I order my new tire, My nimbus rim is worked

[1-wheeled-grape]

That last picture is cool! What other parts are you putting the rim and clamp on to? And don't say a frame and hub, I ment type.

[maestro8]

Originally Posted by maximus unius

Alex DX rims suck for trials.

Yeah, I know. I've been using mine for about four years now and I just can't get it to bend. I've been doing big drops with bad landings, missing pedal grabs and bashing my spokes, never adjusting spoke tension, and the wheel just stays in true.

Wait.

That sounds like a good rim!

What are you talking about, max? If the rim "sucked" why would it be the stock wheel for UDCs trials unis?

[agentQ]

Originally Posted by maestro8

Yeah, I know. I've been using mine for about four years now and I just can't get it to bend. I've been doing big drops with bad landings, missing pedal grabs and bashing my spokes, never adjusting spoke tension, and the wheel just stays in true.

Wait.

That sounds like a good rim!

What are you talking about, max? If the rim "sucked" why would it be the stock wheel for UDCs trials unis?

He is saying that there is a reason that manufactures are starting to move towards wider rims. Less fold over allows for softer tire pressures, as well as a more predictable hop and less pinch flats.

I really dont think his issue was a complaint towards the strength of the rim.


Oh yea, by the way Emile. Pretty parts. Gotta love that square box, eh?

[maximus unius]

Originally Posted by maestro8

Yeah, I know. I've been using mine for about four years now and I just can't get it to bend. I've been doing big drops with bad landings, missing pedal grabs and bashing my spokes, never adjusting spoke tension, and the wheel just stays in true.

Wait.

That sounds like a good rim!

What are you talking about, max? If the rim "sucked" why would it be the stock wheel for UDCs trials unis?

Alex DX32 rims are extremely strong. I'm not saying they're weak at all. But they are so narrow and unstable that they are not very good compared to the wide (and still pretty strong) newer rims on the market.

As for the UDC trials unis (I assume you are talking about the Nimbus ISIS trials unicycle), they come with a Nimbus trials rim, not Alex DX32. The Nimbus rim is wider than the Alex DX32, although only by about 4mm.

[Emile.m]

Originally Posted by 1-wheeled-grape

That last picture is cool! What other parts are you putting the rim and clamp on to? And don't say a frame and hub, I ment type.

My current uni.

I'm buying the 08 KH frame as soon as it comes out (I'll strip the paint an paint in black).

I unbuilt my wheel like a few hours ago, I'm getting money and I'm buying spokes right now. I'll cut them, then I'll paint my hub and I'll continue building my wheel tomorrow and later if it's not done yet.

I'll go to my local hardware shop right now to see if they have purple paint. I would be way cooler for the hub and pedals then black.

-Émile

[1-wheeled-grape]

Sounds good... wait purple hub and pedals Cooooool!

[unicycle nut]

I wish I would get boxes like that.

[zfreak220]

plastic

metal

no need for painting.

[Eroick]

Originally Posted by Emile.m

I'll go to my local hardware shop right now to see if they have purple paint. I would be way cooler for the hub and pedals then black.

I'd paint the hub since it rarely makes contact with anything, so the paint shouldn't chip. Pedals are another story though, it defiantly worth buying purple pedals since the paint will come off of the other ones really quickly. Those animal pedals are great, I've tried them on someone else's trials uni.