Scooterotica

corrado wrote:Peter 357 has some fitted. I do know that they're connected by a fair old quantity of allen bolts so you wouldn't want to have to change a tyre at the roadside.

You could buy an extra one for a spare

soulsurfer wrote:

sydduckett wrote:do we have anyone on here who has first hand knowledge of the cam lam split rims? If they work well then it seems as though its the obvious answer or am i missing something.....probably...

What, you mean apart from £400 for a pair of wheels

400quid is cheap really if they work like they should you cant put a price on your life
safety first at any cost.

caspa2006 wrote: 400quid is cheap really if they work like they should you cant put a price on your life
safety first at any cost.

Heh heh.. that's funny.

Have you seen how many clowns wear p155 pots and bomber jackets?

Safety is waaay down the list of priorities for a great many people.

After reading all the reports on these new Chinese made aluminium rims it is becoming clear that they are not as good as the tried & tested ScootRs steel ones due to 2 basic design/manufacture errors. Firstly they do not fit properly relying on the studs alone to centralise and deal with all the stresses, this is not a problem just for the rim but also for the quite fragile Lambretta hub as the stress is concentrated on a smaller area around the hubs stud flanges .in effect increasing the leverage stress on the hub. (The Spanish rear hub fitting problem is a minor issue compared to this).
Secondly the new rims are taller so the old problem of tyre fitting is made even worse and unlike mild steel that will allow some flex aluminium tends to develop stress fractures that are not always easily detectable straight away.

Seems reading on other forums that some of the tyre garages that struggled but managed to fit some of thehigher rated / stiffer side wall tyres such as Schwalbe etc on to the steel scootrs tubeless rims are giving up altogether with these ally rims as they are just too tight so it would be a good idea to buy the rims with tyres already fitted.

gadgetman wrote: so it would be a good idea to buy the rims with tyres already fitted.

And then what when they wear out? I don't care how good they look. And I do want some, it seems to me that they are still not fit for pupose with tyre fitting issues and more importantly for me, not fitting the hub properly. I'm sticking to splits, tubes and slime until I can be sure.

I got the first set out of the door of the AF rims ,fitted on italian rear hub and,italian disc hub, ive fitted S1 tyres (always used these) warmed in hot water prior to fitting ,they were tight but i got them on by hand no scratches to rims no damage to tyre

and people tend to cut old tyres off on the auto rims

Well I took my AFR rim to National Tyres today along with a new Schwalbe Raceman tyre. It took two fitters and a machine to get it seated. In the end they had to use a nylon covered tyre lever to get the last part of the tyre to pop on the rim. All this for £5 cash. Also the rim fits perfect with a P.M. Tuning/Lambretta Innovations double disc brake set up. Not rubbing and every thing lines up and is central.

T5-190 wrote:

I'm assuming that there's no clearance issues with the valve then on the twin disc?