Author Topic: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays. (Read 914 times)

magna13 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2008, 02:24 PM »

but surely by todays standards the stuff they are made from is much stronger???

spleen1970 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2008, 02:24 PM »

but they go back into shape unlike spokes

but spokes will never ever look as cool as tuffs!!!

MartyC · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2008, 02:38 PM »

I've seen plenty of riders do that to spoked wheels bitd too, even one or two new school 48's of late

meticulous · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2008, 02:40 PM »

Quote from: MartyC on December 06, 2008, 02:38 PM

I've seen plenty of riders do that to spoked wheels bitd too, even one or two new school 48's of late

here!here!... if them wheels were spokes they would have doubled over...

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2008, 03:50 PM »

i was a die hard tuff fan and only ran tuffs from when i got back into riding and had no problem with them, loved them, then i rode spokes for a while n tried going back to tuffs, fookin no way! the flex, after you get used to spokes, is fookin unbelieveble, you just don't realise. spokes all the way now for me im afraid.

meticulous · « **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2008, 05:55 PM »

get some graffites then....

darkersomeday · « **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2008, 06:01 PM »

sweetbeats · « **Reply #8 on:** December 06, 2008, 06:01 PM »

Tuffs Rule
And look so Cool
if you aint got tuffs
Your bike is a Fool

firebird4130 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2008, 06:07 PM »

I bet those 2 dudes on the wooden bikes are off to the secret jungle trails

sweetbeats · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2008, 06:09 PM »

Loving them wooden bikes...genius them.
Be good with some of uncle del's decals on....timberstylers

The one below looks like it has wooden box cranks on

southend_styler · « **Reply #11 on:** December 06, 2008, 06:21 PM »

Not just tuffs

magna13 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 06, 2008, 06:54 PM »

, never seen Z-Rims like that before!

phantom photon · « **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2008, 09:54 PM »

I used to do that with my Z-rims bitd - only thing is you would snap 1 or 2 spokes everytime

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2008, 10:10 PM »

Quote from: magna13 on December 06, 2008, 06:54 PM

, never seen Z-Rims like that before!

every set of zeds looked like that at one time or another, it was obligatory in the 80's

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #15 on:** December 06, 2008, 10:27 PM »

Quote from: S&Mc Bicycle Co on December 06, 2008, 02:19 PM

Who's the rider?
Looks familiar, I was thinkin' Craig or Lee or Simon...

lodge · « **Reply #16 on:** December 06, 2008, 10:29 PM »

scott250 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 06, 2008, 11:43 PM »

Tuffs are rubish, hahaha. Sorry to you die hard lovers, but they are just rubbish. Flex feels horrible and they just shater if you landed badly on a 360 for eg. Yer they looked cool back in the 80s but a bit of wind and you were blown to flying 90 of death, haha. I had z rims in the 80s too and yes every time I landed to bend the rim 90 a few spokes went as phantom photon has said, haha.

Darkshadow · « **Reply #18 on:** December 07, 2008, 12:12 AM »

But you cant get spokey dokeys for tuffs.

aditup 2234 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 07, 2008, 09:01 AM »

Other than the FLEX problem, the main thing, IMHO is the "drag" they cause. They are totally un-aerodynamic. Just spin one between your hands and feel the air they displace in your face. They must take so much energy just to overcome that.
That apprecited, it is a joke really to see OS boys racing with them.
They are the coolest looking wheel though, without doubt.
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