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05-11-21 | 06:08 PM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by cpach

There's no way there's published specs on a cheap single wall rim like that, but I'd probably bring it up to about 80-90KGF ideally. Quality rims to whatever the rated max is, if unknown usually I do about 120kgf.

If the rim in the picture is Pimpman’s wheel, that is not a single wall rim. The profile is too tall for a single wall rim.

I have never found any “published specs” for any rim. Ranges, yes. Actual values, no. And those ranges tend to be a single number for all of the rims that the manufacturer makes. Velocity, for example, gives a single range for their 15 different models of rims even though the rims have a wide variety of profiles and widths. They have more information on the width of tire for each rim than they do for spoke tension.

110 to 120 kgf is probably a good guess but it is only a guess.

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