If you go back and look at the original pics that Leah posted, you can see brake wear at the spokes and see the eyelets pulling away from the rim. I don't know how much wear that rim has but if the sidewalls are worn enough to cause the sidewalls to bulge at the spoke holes then it's a pretty well worn rim.
If the spokes bulging and the eyelets pulling are an indication of too much tension or a defective rim then a message to the manufacturer might be in order. Rims are consumable and it's possible it lived a useful life. Several years of hard braking on downhills seems pretty reasonable. If it was a new wheel and this happened in the first year of use then that would seem premature. Using a bike for everyday transportation assumes some level of maintenance and replacement of consumables. Ray Vallejo CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
