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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Buying Tyres for a Rapide
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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Watson" data-source="post: 153079" data-attributes="member: 38"><p>The rims I just re-tyred had 4 holes per rim. One for the valve stem, two for the rim locks and one for a balance weight. I made 3 little button head alloy bushings and pushed them in from the inside of the rim, with and appropriate bit of filing to come close to the contour of the rim and set them in there with black silicone and then covered with the rim tape. You can barely see them sitting there between the spokes. Certainly much less so that rim lock and weight bolts.</p><p></p><p>I have run modern tyres without the rim locks or weight bolts and have never (in almost 40 years and mileage well into 6 figures) had a tyre slip on a rim.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Watson, post: 153079, member: 38"] The rims I just re-tyred had 4 holes per rim. One for the valve stem, two for the rim locks and one for a balance weight. I made 3 little button head alloy bushings and pushed them in from the inside of the rim, with and appropriate bit of filing to come close to the contour of the rim and set them in there with black silicone and then covered with the rim tape. You can barely see them sitting there between the spokes. Certainly much less so that rim lock and weight bolts. I have run modern tyres without the rim locks or weight bolts and have never (in almost 40 years and mileage well into 6 figures) had a tyre slip on a rim. [/QUOTE]
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