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Title: z-rim question
Post by: rollin72 on January 24, 2011, 09:31 PM: ive just got a white z-rim that is totally different than any other ive seen before, there is no acs z-rim or made in england/pat pending stamped on the rim, the brake surface is rough, the rim width is about 2/3mm smaller than a regular one and the centre of the rim has a seam and is shaped rather than flat, the material is the same and bends like dubber in digglers van :D
can anyone shed some light on it please

nice1 gaz :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: poolysheriff on January 24, 2011, 09:36 PM: no

:LolLolLolLol:

You have a freak rim Gaz
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rollin72 on January 24, 2011, 09:41 PM: Quote from: poolysheriff on January 24, 2011, 09:36 PM
no

:LolLolLolLol:

You have a freak rim Gaz
i know, i had a thing for inserting fruit...oh you mean the z-rim :10_2_12:
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: Dark Diggler on January 24, 2011, 09:49 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a138/mtwils3/jekyll_hyde.gif)
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: ozone on January 24, 2011, 09:50 PM: Is it definitely a Z-rim? I looked at a post on here the other day and there was a bike which had Z-rim copies on it. :-\
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rooski on January 24, 2011, 09:53 PM: i have a meteorlite z rim, which looks a bit like you describe Gaz :-\
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rooski on January 24, 2011, 09:57 PM: just looked a the wheel, brake surface is smooth,so cant be what you have :(
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rollin72 on January 24, 2011, 10:04 PM: Quote from: rooski on January 24, 2011, 09:57 PM
just looked a the wheel, brake surface is smooth,so cant be what you have :(
a meteorlite z rim ???
any chance of a pic andy, never heard of that before
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rooski on January 24, 2011, 10:16 PM: will take a piccie of it tomorrow Gaz :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: ThisBitterPill on January 25, 2011, 07:28 PM: I had a set of non-stamped white Z-type rims and after some research I came to the conclusion they were Meteorite or some other copies....

Every other genuine set I could find anything about were stamped....

I sold them to Swivel on here last year....

:)
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: Badbaldie on January 27, 2011, 08:53 PM: got a pic Gaz?
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rollin72 on January 27, 2011, 09:36 PM: cant get a good enough pic to show the differences, plus they're in a tub of bleach...in the shed not in my dining room :D

anybody got anymore info, i was talking to crazycraig the other night and he said that z-rims pre 82/83 wern't stamped, but also said there were copies he called whalebones
ive never seen either of these ???
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: ThisBitterPill on January 28, 2011, 02:25 PM: I searched and searched for more info on the 'unstamped' ones and I cam to the conclusion that they
were either copies or a myth....

Everyone I asked in the US said they were all stamped and that the earliest ones had the PAT PENDING on them...

These had the small chrome decal and no logo on the sidewall...They are supposedly stiffer than the later ones....

Most should also have a date stamped (or written on later ones) on the inside of the rim where the spoke holes are....

:)
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rooski on January 31, 2011, 10:17 PM: here you go Gaz,

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp160/andyrooski/IMAG0041.jpg)

its NOS too :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rollin72 on January 31, 2011, 10:42 PM: cheers Andy, thats the 1st one of those ive seen, have you only got the one. thats a bit different to mine
Title: Re: z-rim question
Post by: rooski on January 31, 2011, 10:52 PM: Quote from: rollin72 on January 31, 2011, 10:42 PM
cheers Andy, thats the 1st one of those ive seen, have you only got the one. thats a bit different to mine

Only got the one im afraid :(