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11/1/2016 12:22pm
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Any questions on Tusk's very affordable Impact Wheelset?
Any questions on Tusk's very affordable Impact Wheelset?
The Shop
THESE WHEELS SUCK ASS. (for an A class Rider)
Let me first off start by telling the first initial impression.... i had my ktm dealer in texas swap them for trade on brand new stock wheels as i had read somewhere the 16 ktms had issues of the spokes blowing apart on impact..... so i did and they swapped them too the orange hub black rim combo...... i loved the wheels when i first got them..... i had ten hours on the bike running mx3s tires and yes there was starting to begin a line that was 5mm wide and it was turning silver..... the silver ring of death..... at least to the rear rim.... so yea yea yea it started to discolor oh well not a performance issue right....
well bike hit 15 hours literally like 14.9 and come to find out i had three broken rear spokes....
yes i did the new wheel or new bike spoke tightening ritual for the first ten hours... thought everything was great then i turned around and looked at rear rim and what do you know three broken spokes....
i ride at tracks that are no where near national caliber and get slightly small chop... nothing serious like red bud or budds creek or glen helen or any of the nationals hell even amatuer nationals get more square edge than what you find in ohio on a local day......
any way i replaced the rear spokes with some bulldogs and kept checking and checking....
i was having to start getting a black paint marker with a thick tip at this point somewhere around 20 hours riding at a local A level.....and marking the rear rim to make it look new again....
25 hours hit and guess what i check the spokes and 6 more broken spokes i dont even know how i rode off the track without dying by a flying broken spoke..... it was the Head of the spokes right where they mate or settle into the cnc hole of the hub is where it broke.
i again replaced the spokes with bulldogs and kept doing my thing but this time i noticed a flat spot as well..... the rim was completely out of round and totally hard to get anywhere near true and when i went into the air i could feel the rear of the bike jumping around when there was wheel spin in the air..... at this point i came to conclusion i should have just stuck with the O.E.M. wheels.....
and yes if there was emojis on here i would totaly have one with my face and then a pistol pointing at my face lol/
but luckily i got to experience this with no extra cost to me cause in the end....... if i would have paid for these wheels i would have been highly pissed.
so for a D-class or C-class hero these would be perfect but imagine buying them right before lorettas cause moneys tight and then your rear rim blowing out because it hit square edged too hard and the bit that they used at the asian factory wasnt getting switched out when it should to machine the spoke hole in the cnc and it was a qtr millimeter too tight and your whole lorettas week went too shit.....
Like i said i am unhappy about them and im lucky i knew what i was doing to keep fixing the problem......
MY RATING WOULD BE A negative 5 at this point....
i dont have any pictures to prove my point cause i sold the bike but man if i di you guys would not be happy as well
two thumbs down on this one.
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