Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Footnote. Rims are made of extruded aluminum and not prone to isolated failures of this type. If the wall section is this thin, and not the result of track wear or scoring, then there's possibly a serious problem of large numbers made with a thin wall prone to this failure. .
Agreed.
- Most likely the rim was damaged in use, not a warranty issue.
- Much less likely: the extrusion die was getting worn out and the rim manufacturer let way too many rims get sold with too-thin walls and may have a lot of valid warranty claims coming up.
- Very very much less likely, there was an extrusion problem or alloy defect affecting only this one rim - that would be a warranty as well.
- INFINITELY less likely, is Bike Island's counter claim that "
this can happen from an improperly seated tire."