My experience in the last 3 years is not that good; possibly the
roads are better in England. My car came equipped with wire wheels.
Both times I had it at the track, spokes broke and all loosened.
Additionally, hitting even a moderately-sized pothole can throw them
out of tune. All of this is no big deal if you have new wire wheels
or you have old ones that were properly maintained with spokes that
are not rusted solid in their nipples. As an exercise, I decided to
replace the broken spokes and tighten the loose ones on my spare
tire. Replacing the two broken ones was easy. However, out of the
remaining 18 (!) that were loose, only two of them could be broken
loose in their nipples. The rest had to be cut out. At that point, I
decided that I really didn't want to spend $80+ each to R&R old
wheels. I'm converting to steel wheels probably early in 2001.
YMMV,
Jeff
At 3:34 PM -0500 12/7/00, Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
>The maintenance my wheels get is a wash once every year or so. It is best to
>grease the splines on the hub but since the grease doesn't wear off this is
>once in a blue moon job. I tighten the knock off when I fit the wheel and
>the next time it sees the hammer is when I come to take the wheel off.
>
>There is no big deal about wire spoked wheels apart from the fact they are
>really great looking.
>
>
>Daniel1312
>
>In a message dated 06/12/00 20:07:39 Pacific Standard Time,
>Toby@intri-plex.com writes:
>
><< Wire wheels require maintenance and tightening with a hammer
> in order to keep the wheel in place >>
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Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
Senior Editor, Molecular Vision, http://www.molvis.org/molvis
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