Old 11-17-09, 10:34 AM
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If it's many parallel grooves, it may increase brake pad wear a lot, and here's why:

if the wheel were absolutely round, there would be no problem. But the wheel is guaranteed to be a tiny bit out of round no matter what you do. The grooves potentially pull little bits off of the brake pad, in similar fashion to if you had a rim whose outer surface was covered in DIAGONAL grooves or shallow razor blades running diagonally.
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