Rip mountain bike wheel.

Not having a good run of luck at the moment. Took wheel off to fix a puncture from last ride, puncture was on the underside which is odd, so took the rim tape off and apparently my rear wheel is a disaster waiting to happen. At some point it's taken some damage and just gotten worse over time, with the rim tape hiding it, so I didn't notice it. Inner part of the rim is cracked near enough all the way around, completely fucked.

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Rims have had a hard life & are at least 6 years old & did have a slight ding on the outside, but normally wouldn't cause such an issue, so might just be fatigue, but still just a disaster waiting to happen. Glad it did not go while riding, would not have been fun :cry:.

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FAST6191
"would not have been fun"

No but a cartoon/silent film thing where it all just falls apart would have been funny.
 
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H1B1Esquire
Whoa, that's pretty serious--you're having a string of bad luck with things breaking.
Who the hell did you piss off?
 
ELY_M
I never seen this before. I use to ride bmx bikes and break parts badly.
 
Armadillo
First time I've seen a crack inside like that as well. Can find a few others cracked similar from a quick search, so seems like if that wheel fails (mavic xm719), it seems to be like that. Front is ok, and were bought as a pair, so think it must have a taken a whack off road and gradually worsened.
 
linuxares
wow! You're lucky nothing happened while you where riding. That's bad but heck, nothing that can't be replaced.
 
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