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Re: Complaint about spokes breaking

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Subject: Re: Complaint about spokes breaking
From: Blue One Hundred <healey.nut@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:32:39 +0800
I should clarify that the problems I had were with old MWS supplied
Dunlops (20 years ago).  I haven't had a problem with them since BWW
rebuilt them with SS spokes 15 years ago.

Cheers,

Alan

'53 BN1 '64 BJ8

On 6/10/05, Editorgary@aol.com <Editorgary@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 6/8/05 7:34:24 PM, roadwarriordave@hotmail.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Plus I have two other gripes with the Dunlops -
> >
> 
> With all the problems you've had with these wheels, I have to ask why you've
> never discussed these problems with the original vendor, and why you didn't
> just buy new Dayton wheels if you were going to go to the trouble and expense 
>of
> having Dayton rebuild the Dunlop wheels? Seems to me that the original vendor
> would have some sort of warranty on the wheels, and would also seem that
> given the cost of respoking a wheel, it would have paid to simply have 
>switched to
> a Dayton wheel when the spokes started to break.
> I should also point out that for the most part, it sounds as if you're trying
> to fix wheels that are more than five years old, and may be much older than
> that.
> One thing Kelvin Dodds of Moss told me was that there had been problems in
> the distant past with the MSW Dunlop wheels, but that in more recent years the
> product has improved substantially, and that Moss does give a warranty on the
> new Dunlop wheels it sells.
> Cheers
> Gary




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