{"id":425621,"date":"2026-01-22T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:27:09","slug":"wow-just-wow-bike-shop-horrified-by-rim-so-worn-you-can-pop-the-entire-outer-wall-off-with-your-thumbs-and-keep-the-tyre-inflated-more-on-the-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425621\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wow&#8230; just wow&#8221;: Bike shop horrified by rim so worn you can &#8220;pop the entire outer wall off with your thumbs and keep the tyre inflated&#8221; + more on the live blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your customer just wants their wheel trued:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/BikeMechanics\/comments\/1qjaicm\/you_ever_seen_a_rim_so_worn_you_can_pop_the\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You ever seen a rim so worn you can pop the entire outer wall off with your thumbs and keep the tyre inflated?<\/a><br \/>by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/dermsUK\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">u<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/dermsUK\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/dermsUK<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/BikeMechanics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BikeMechanics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That&#8217;s a whole new level of getting every last mile out of your tech, even by\u00a0the desperate and depraved standards of\u00a0the mechanical horror show content that we&#8217;ve seen on this live blog over the years. It&#8217;s normally <a href=\"https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/cycling-live-blog-31-july-2025-315219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tyres worn down to the casing<\/a>, shark&#8217;s tooth chainrings or ninja star jockey wheels, but we&#8217;ve never had a removable outer wall before.<\/p>\n<p>It seems not many in the industry have seen such &#8216;impressive&#8217; levels of wear either, the bike mechanics thread on Reddit in meltdown over this achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow. Generally I see one side pop before the other but never seen both go as clean as that,&#8221; one mechanic said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/untitled-1_35.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload\" itemprop=\"image\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" alt=\"Bike mechanic horrified by worn rim \" title=\"Bike mechanic horrified by worn rim \"\/><\/p>\n<p>The mechanic from the\u00a0bike shop that dealt with this explained how they felt the rim tearing all the way round, wherever they pushed&#8230; &#8220;like opening a can of tuna&#8221;&#8230; apparently.\u00a0Let&#8217;s hope that wasn&#8217;t the scent\u00a0too. It had worn through completely in several places and popped off with little effort.<\/p>\n<p>The pads were &#8220;metal on metal&#8221; too, unsurprisingly, the mechanic guessing it was &#8220;the outer wall keeping everything together&#8221; with the pads also &#8220;way too low&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is some seriously impressive wear on that wheel,&#8221; one mechanic who didn&#8217;t know whether to be disgusted or excited commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow&#8230; just wow,&#8221; a\u00a0stunned colleague added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They paid for the whole rim, by god they&#8217;re going to use the whole rim,&#8221; just about sums up the whole situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/cycling-live-blog-10-april-2025-313459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;\u00a0&#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll hang it on the wall like a trophy&#8221;: Cyclist&#8217;s spectacularly worn chainring shocks riders and mechanics online&#8230; one suggesting it&#8217;s &#8220;genuinely the worst chainring that I&#8217;ve seen in my entire life&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what to do next? Despite the jokers suggesting it&#8217;s &#8220;nothing a little super glue won&#8217;t put back together&#8221;&#8230; or worse, tub tape&#8230; this one&#8217;s done. But could it inspire innovation from bike brands?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New bicycle industry innovation coming 2027:\u00a0&#8216;No need to have two sets of rims! Keep a set of backup tyres inflated for on-the-go wheel changes&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When your customer just wants their wheel trued: You ever seen a rim so worn you can pop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-425621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}