7X or Speedline??

[Gnarlyscoots]

Okay. I was having a chat earlier with a buddy and we couldn't really agree as to which of the following two rims would come out best in a vote.

Araya 7X....



or Ukai Speedline....



While I have used both, I only ever raced with 7X, and rode street with Speedlines. The Speedlines are double walled for strength and the 7X are single wall for lightness, but both seem to weigh about the same.

What are your thoughts Guys 

[nosepickben]

Ukai rims bend, Araya rims snap. I like Ukai better, a little warning before failure!

[insectbones]

Prefer speedlines meself, for no other reason than looks 

[Gnarlyscoots]

Prefer speedlines meself, for no other reason than looks 

I have to admit, Speedlines do seem to have an 'awe' about them 

[insectbones]

Coloured speedlines look great with the lines picked out

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[rodriguez]

Speedlines   

[hunterdubber]

Definately Ukais for me . the colour quality and the look , hands down winner.

Although I bet if you did a poll with Joe Bloggs  to ask about memorable things from Old BMX . I bet more  remember Araya  7X from their youth .

[McQUEEN]

Definately Ukais for me . the colour quality and the look , hands down winner.

Although I bet if you did a poll with Joe Bloggs  to ask about memorable things from Old BMX . I bet more  remember Araya  7X from their youth .

its funny, I'm not Joe Bloggs but really didn't remember the speedlines - No one had Ukai's where we rode. I remember the 7x's, had a pair and then 'upgraded' to Araya aero's and then freestyle came along and never looked beyond a pair of tuffs?!

Putting that to one side, now I'd go Ukai, especially if as shown you could pick the lines out.....

[That Swan Guy]

7x was what we all rode apart from the factory riders. They tended to have Speedlines. I prefer the Ukai for the reasons already stated.

Upgrade to Araya Aero. Really? They were cheap and ugly.

[58 delray]

i used either 7X or Ukai HE's bitd, never had speedlines and still dont have any now, got 3 sets of HE's though

[McQUEEN]

Upgrade to Araya Aero. Really? They were cheap and ugly.

Not when you're a 13 year old kid in a bike shop seeing the latest parts...

[That Swan Guy]

Upgrade to Araya Aero. Really? They were cheap and ugly.

Not when you're a 13 year old kid in a bike shop seeing the latest parts...

fair one

[pickle]

I only ever knew Araya BITD, never heard of Ukai rims till i started on here 

[meticulous]

7X for me every time,  for some strange reason I always thought of ukai's playing second fiddle to the arayas,  maybe it was that ukai's where just slightly cheaper to buy!

[Hmoon27]

Same as McQueen & pickle never heard of ukai as a nipper. I too raced on Araya aeros, still my favourite wheel today

[Gnarlyscoots]

I got my first Ukai Speedlines back in mid '84. I went to Shoreham track to race with my mates and I had on my rig white Tuff's, Tuf Neck stem, chrome MX1000  and CW pro bars. These guys come over to chat and one of them had blue speedlines on his rig. He also had a blue MX1000, blue Suntour stem and Tioga straight bars.

Anyways, I just had to have those wheels, they were awesome, so I asked him about them and he said they are new and had double skin sidewalls for strength etc. So I offered him my white Tuffs and chrome MX1000 for a swap. He laughed and said, throw in the stem and bars for swaps and you got a deal. I had to think about it as I hadn't the stem long, although I got it in a trade myself.

So I agreed and we swapped parts. It was the first time I raced on them and they just pissed all over having Tuffs on 

[McQUEEN]

I got my first Ukai Speedlines back in mid '84. I went to Shoreham track to race with my mates and I had on my rig white Tuff's, Tuf Neck stem, chrome MX1000  and CW pro bars. These guys come over to chat and one of them had blue speedlines on his rig. He also had a blue MX1000, blue Suntour stem and Tioga straight bars.

Anyways, I just had to have those wheels, they were awesome, so I asked him about them and he said they are new and had double skin sidewalls for strength etc. So I offered him my white Tuffs and chrome MX1000 for a swap. He laughed and said, throw in the stem and bars for swaps and you got a deal. I had to think about it as I hadn't the stem long, although I got it in a trade myself.

So I agreed and we swapped parts. It was the first time I raced on them and they just pissed all over having Tuffs on 

The things you'd do BITD for the parts that made your balls tingle!!

That would be a great idea for a thread - if of course it hasn't been done before. "What did you swap BITD?" I remember buying a set of chrome CW Pro bars at Rom one Saturday and the next Saturday swapping them for a set of GT Pro's! My old man went potty! I even swapped the aero's I mentioned earlier in the thread for tuffs at Rom!