1200 GS alloys v spoked wheels

[Number 6]

Only what I've heard on here. Plus, with conventional spoked rims*, it's a well known fact.
*Yes, I know BM don't use conventional spoked rims.

A well known fact that you don't actually have any experience of but you read it on the internet so it must be true?

I have an alloy cross-spoke BMW GS rim that is 25 years old and it's perfect. I also have an original pair of 45 year old Borrani aluminium 'conventional spoked rims' on my 1968 BSA Spitfire that are also perfect. That's two more facts for you

 

[Greenman14]

Somebody's going to contradict me, but I think the spoked wheels are heavier and the increased unsprung weight makes the bike a bit harder to turn. In back to back tests this cat preferred the feel of the bike on cast wheels.

 

[Nutty]

Somebody's going to contradict me, but I think the spoked wheels are heavier and the increased unsprung weight makes the bike a bit harder to turn. In back to back tests this cat preferred the feel of the bike on cast wheels.

I think that's been mentioned before somewhere

 

[(RIP) Miff]

A well known fact that you don't actually have any experience of but you read it on the internet so it must be true?

I have an alloy cross-spoke BMW GS rim that is 25 years old and it's perfect. I also have an original pair of 45 year old Borrani aluminium 'conventional spoked rims' on my 1968 BSA Spitfire that are also perfect. That's two more facts for you

I've had many bikes with spoked wheels and they ALL had some rust on the inside.

 

[Sgt Bilco]

I've had many bikes with spoked wheels and they ALL had some rust on the inside.

Not a problem on the GS wheels Miff. I had my wheels apart last year for rebuilding and not a spot of corrosion on the inside. The wheels were corroded elsewhere and they had had a very hard life up until then. I've never heard of it on a GS spoked wheel.

 

[earthmover]

My BMW spoked wheels are perfect on the inside, as they are tubeless there is very little chance of any moisture to cause the corrosion. Normally spoked wheels (ie where the spokes are to the centre of the rim) are rarely air tight so use tubes. This means that moisture can also enter, and thus corrode the rim from the inside. I've just had to put new rims on a 30 year old trials bike which looked fine from the outside, but were rotten inside.
Spoked wheel look better on a GS, but are a bitch to clean. So I tend not to do it too often.
Mark

 

[Number 6]

I've had many bikes with spoked wheels and they ALL had some rust on the inside.

They would be STEEL wheels then

This thread is about ALUMINIUM wheels.

 

[(RIP) Miff]

They would be STEEL wheels then

This thread is about ALUMINIUM wheels.

Well I know aluminium won't rust. It DOES corrode though

 

[Sgt Bilco]

Spoked wheel look better on a GS, but are a bitch to clean. So I tend not to do it too often.
Mark

Hadn't noticed

 

[Mr K]

There seem to be a limited number of wheel-furtlers willing to take-on GS spoked wheels.

 

[Number 6]

So Miff, back to your first post on this subject.......

The spoked wheels have been known to corrode from the inside.

They haven't because they don't.

......it's a well known fact.

Come on then, show us some evidence.