This is a subject that NEEDS to be addressed. Now everybody these days is saying man I have 2 thousand miles on my wally world bike what could had gone wrong already has right? Wrong! Now I will say wally world bikes are fine to an extent, but when you put more and more power and higher speeds onto those cheap rims something is going to fail. My bike recently began a terrible cracking noise which I traced to the rear rim. This bike often hits 40mph+ in short spurts. I would like to share with you the bearings of this wheel with a small cracking noise.
This was one of two failing bearings. I just took them out by hand. All the ball bearings just fell apart. The bearing itself is covered in grease. Now say I was going 40mph and this bearing were to seize up on me. Where would I be? Six foot under or in a hospital room? I just thought I'd shed some light on those of you who want to make a bike go 50mph, but don't want to invest in a bike that is more than $50. It's easy to take a bike fast, but doing it safely is something completely opposite. To handle the extra speed my bike has I have replaced both rims with better quality components as well as added extra stopping power. This makes my bike a heck of a lot safer.
Now do you think your bike will last forever? Because as far as I know this rim didn't have very many miles on it. A little $$$ in preventative measures can go a long ways when it comes to saving you thousands on medical bills.
This was one of two failing bearings. I just took them out by hand. All the ball bearings just fell apart. The bearing itself is covered in grease. Now say I was going 40mph and this bearing were to seize up on me. Where would I be? Six foot under or in a hospital room? I just thought I'd shed some light on those of you who want to make a bike go 50mph, but don't want to invest in a bike that is more than $50. It's easy to take a bike fast, but doing it safely is something completely opposite. To handle the extra speed my bike has I have replaced both rims with better quality components as well as added extra stopping power. This makes my bike a heck of a lot safer.
Now do you think your bike will last forever? Because as far as I know this rim didn't have very many miles on it. A little $$$ in preventative measures can go a long ways when it comes to saving you thousands on medical bills.