Bicycle rims

Of all the parts, bicycle rims are often mistakenly overlooked

If you’ve tricked out the rest of your ride, you better have paid at least a little attention to your bicycle rims. They’re not just pieces of metal stuck to your bike. Your bicycle rims can have a big impact on how well – or how poorly – your bike rides. Bicycle rims can literally make or break a ride, since a fracture or even a tiny crack in your bicycle rims can send you not to the dirt bike parts store, but to the hospital.

If you have a crack in your bicycle rims, you can be sure that a complete breakdown in the way your bike works will follow. If you’re out on the trail crashing down a slope or on the dirt bike track, a malfunction in your bicycle rims can send you up over the handlebars and into the ground. This is why it’s absolutely essential that you pay even closer attention to your bicycle rims than you do to the rest of your cycling gear.

Don’t just let some kid at the counter of the dirt bike parts store put your bicycle rims together, and try to find out exactly where and how your bicycle rims were manufactured before you make a purchase. This is a situation in which the extra money you put toward it will be well spent. Other cycling gear may make a dent in your bank account without much return, but the first time you jam over a boulder with your new, solid bicycle rims you’ll be glad you spent the extra cash.