I kinda or scratched the hell out of my dp18 front wheels side wall on friday night. Here's what happened it's the end of the semester here at school so i took my bike back home last weekend. I went to my buddies house for a bonfire so i decided to ride my bike over since he only lives across the main road through my town. I forgot my light up at school so i figure i would be fine since its not far at all. Well on the way home i have to climb a very steep hill to get back to my house which i usually do fine when i have a light so the drunk drivers don't hit me going around the 90* turn. So I decide to take the sidewalk. About 20 feet from the top of the side walk is an inch or two high piece of sidewalk. Well i didn't pull up to get my front wheel over and somehow ended up with my front wheel in the grass with the braking surface scratching up against the coarse sidewalk edge. I rode down the hill to my house and a car was coming up so used the brake to slow down a bit and could feel it in the brake. My question is, is there a possible way to level it out safely without weakening the rim? I don't want to take a file to it without knowing what it would do to it. Thanks a head of time.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Get some 80 or 120 grit sandpaper. Get a rubber eraser or other sort of flat - but flexible - stuff. Wrap the sandpaper around the block. Sand off any high spots. Grooves in the rim won't make much difference, so don't worry about them.

This should not weaken your rims significantly so don't worry about it.

Alright JackD sounds good. I'll do that at the end of the this week.

Urban assualt- I don't have a picture at the moment because I am back at school. I'll post one at the end of the week maybe to see how it went.