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tubeless lambretta rim (4) by mark & anne's photos, on Flickr

lee look on here and you will see that the af one dont sit onto rim shoulder , they have a 3-5mm gap
http://www.forums.ilambretta.com/viewto ... f+tubeless

rocho68 wrote:If theres a problem then what are af rayspeed saying about them ,surely they tested fitment before selling on the open market ?

"Never heard of that before" .... "its your stainless tank" .... "the TS1 kit will be here in 2-3 weeks" (Gilardoni have closed BTW!) ...... "the piston / bore tolerance is correct"
IMHO its a shop stocked of bits by the lowest bidder

rocho68 wrote:If theres a problem then what are af rayspeed saying about them ,surely they tested fitment before selling on the open market ?

"Thank you for your feedback and concern. This is an area we are aware of and have considered altering the design for a future supply. However I’m confident there is no safety issue with the current design.

The reason I can be so confident is that nearly every bike we have in the shop at the moment including my own and our race bike has the same gap between rim and hub. I’ve quickly snapped a couple of pictures to show this. This is very common on SIL hubs and rims, I can remember being concerned about it with them some years ago. However this has been the case for a number of years with the replacement and sil factory standard rims and I have yet to have a failure associated with this design feature.

My main concern here is that the wheel nuts are tight. If there is any play on the wheel nuts, standard steel rims eat through the stud quite quickly and I have repaired bikes that have the tell tale elongated stud holes, polished smooth studs and rattle of loose rims. I have yet to run one of our new rims loose but I would not expect them to fair differently from the original pressed steel rims in this regard, they must be tight.

We have had these rims on my bike for some time now and Titch has been testing them on the race bike as well. I have full confidence that they are safe and a significant improvement over the standard split steel rim.

Best regards


Ben Kemp"

He did also say...

"I will not guarantee we will make this design change in any future batch as I do not believe this is a problem and I do not want to create a fitment issue on any hubs. I highlight this has been normal on the last production Lambretta's and has shown no problems in the last ten years. I would not fit them to my own bike or our race bike or sell these if I had any fear that this was a safety issue."