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Billet motorcycle wheels let you finish that custom look for your ride. No longer do you customize your frame, tank, saddle - well, everything - and then have to stick those stock wheels back on your bike. The billet wheels for your motorcycle as an investment, but with the variety of looks and styles available, these are the final frontier in full customization to let you design the custom chopper of your dreams.
Most billet motorcycle wheels will bolt onto your bike without having to make any annoying modifications to the frame or fender. However, you should consider how much you are changing from the wheels you had in the past. For example, if you had a 16-inch wheel, and you want to go with a 21-inch billet wheel set, you can expect to have adjustments to make.
When you shop for billet motorcycle wheels, you'll want to determine if the models you find attractive require special brake set-ups or special pulleys. The motorcycle wheel manufacturer or sales location, whether online or local, can help you with this aspect of the selection.
You'll find billet motorcycle wheels available for every make and model of motorcycle and you can mount a wide range of tires on them. Avon's popular Venom X tires and their AM-23 are popular choices for mounting on billet wheels.
Created from blocks of aluminum, billet motorcycle wheels are available in a variety of finishes. You'll find them brushed, chromed, powder-coated and finished in colors. Billet wheels are one of the fastest growing markets in the motorcycle parts arena.
You can expect to pay more for your rear billet motorcycle wheel than for the matching front wheel. Billet wheels for your motorcycle are not cheap but there are some that are not as expensive. Shop around first to determine the style you like the most and then shop extensively to find the best deal on that style. You should plan to spend at least $1,500 for polished wheels and $2,000 or more for chromed. Customized colors require additional cost.
It doesn't matter if you motorcycle is chain-driven, belt-driven or a shaft-drive system. There are billet motorcycle wheels available that will work for you. Because each shaft-drive system is different, manufacturers were a bit slow about developing billet wheels for all of the drives because of the research and development cost. But Jardine proved it can be accomplished. With their line of rims surrounding bolt-in hubs for each cruiser model, their competition has been forced to follow.
Performance Machine was probably the most popular manufacturer of billet motorcycle wheels for a long time. Performance Machine, with its strong commitment to providing aftermarket wheels, along with the rotors and pulleys to match, they provide selections for the belt-drive motorcycles, mainly focusing on the Harley-Davidson aftermarket crowd.
Back in the early 1990s, RC Components came on-board with a single set of billet motorcycle wheels. Today, this company provides a wide range of selections from which you can choose.
If you want a set of four-spoke billet motorcycle wheels, you can turn to Diamond Distributing for their Cutter design. They were first on the market with the four-spoker. Of course, other manufacturers have now come onboard with this design because of its popularity.
There are many other manufacturers you'll find that produce billet motorcycle wheels. The designs cover everything from simple to really radical. So, whatever you want in billet motorcycle wheels, you'll find it out there. Go ahead and enter that final frontier of customization and get the wheels that add the finishing touch.
Tyler Powers is a contributing author and webmaster for Custom Choppers Guide. You can get an excellent free mini course on motorcycle building mistakes called, 'Costly Mistakes Custom Motorcycle Builders Make And How To Avoid Them!'
Your Guide to Bike Rims and Wheels
The first bicycle wheels were from a horse drawn cart, made of wood with a metal band round the bicycle rim, very hard and very uncomfortable to ride. Then a man called Dunlop (Scottish) invented the pneumatic tire, this along with Macadam (another Scot) inventing the tar road surface made cycling a lot more comfortable.
The bicycle rim, like the bicycle frame hasn't changed much in design, its still round and always will be. From the first wooden rims the next were made of steel, then alloy and now if you can afford it, carbon. Of all bicycle parts the bicycle rim can make a big difference to how your bike handles. First the weight of your rim affects your sprinting and climbing as the weight will low you down, for a long, flat effort the weight isn't so important as when you get the wheels rolling the weight can help to keep them going. The shape of the rim can be important also, a flat rim is best for climbing as aerodynamics are not so important on a hill, a deep section, aero, rim will help you cut through the air, but in a cross wind could cause you handling problems.
Bicycle Rims Materials
The different materials used for rims are very important also, steel is heavy and if damaged can be difficult to pull back into shape, but because its so strong it is quite difficult to bend in the first place and steel is cheaper than all the other materials. Alloy is probably the most popular rim, it can be made in any shape and profile, flat or aero, but not too deep as it would then weigh too much, most deep section rims are of a alloy braking section nearest the tire which is then mounted to a carbon deep section for lightness and aerodynamics and a very beautiful looking bicycle rim. As with most things if money is no problem you can go for the best, this would be an all carbon rim, strong and very light, but there are a few problems with these rims, first they don't brake so well in wet conditions and you must use special brake blocks for carbon and they can be expensive, also the rim has to be perfectly round and not have any bulges in the rim wall as this will make braking quite erratic, carbon is a difficult material to work with and must be well looked after.
Types Of Rim To Consider
There are also two types of rim to consider and this depends on which kind of tire you want to use, first there are tubular tires these are glued on to the bicycle rim, cost more and are difficult to repair after a puncture, but for racing they feel and ride wonderfully. Clincher tires have improved a lot recently and are nearly as good as tubulars for performance and are easily repairable and more reasonably priced. Most manufacturers make all styles in both systems.
So which should I buy? Not an easy answer, as there is so much to choose from, years ago you went to your local bike shop, picked out which hubs, spokes and rims you wanted and he would build your wheels, but now most rim makers also manufacture there own wheel sets, Mavic, Shimano and Campagnolo are probably the best known, check out there web-sites for all there new goodies, there are other brands and if you go to your local cycle shop or look in the bike magazines you'll find them. There is a lot to choose form, but they are all round.
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dp18 wheel set has caused my tubes to deflate, any suggestions?
got some dp18 wheels a week ago. i have replaced the tube on the front tire three times now. they keep flatting from a tiny gash that happens right where the air valve comes out of the tube.
a bike shop suggested today that the tube may be sliding on the rim. i have really nice rim tape on there right now - also not helping. any suggestions?
I've had this problem myself, and never actually found the cause, I got round it by fitting good quality tubes. I had bought some cheap tubes, and they both had this problem with a few days of fitting, but it has happened on other occasions.
It's worth checking that the rim tape is a good fit around the hole for the valve, and that you don't over tighten the lock-nut on the valve stem. It might help to dust the tube, and inside of the tyre, with chalk dust, to help the tube seat properly.
I'll be interested to see if anyone else has any suggestions about the cause of this.
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