seems every time I go riding I have to come back and take a hammer and bend my rims back to normal, today I was riding and the rear rim bent so bad the tire went flat. it doesn't even take a hard whack of the hammer to bend them back around the bead.

I am getting a set of .160 Douglas rear rims tomorrow (used), maybe they work better...

what thickness are the stock rims?

 

You need .190 rims with rings and some 6 ply 22 inch tires rear 23 inch fronts. I think stock are .160

 

the stock wheels on my 01 ds are .190s I thought they were all the same for all years.

 

i'm pretty sure its .190 for 00-03, and for 04 i think they went to .160 to save weight,
wat tire presure are you running?i've always ran 4-5psi and i've never bent a rim, and i've done alotta jumps where i've landed wrong

 

A bigger tire can offset that. ALso having re-enforced rims will help too.

Make sure your tire pressure is set to 4-5 PSI. DS needs 190 thickness rims.

 

I'm getting a set of 22" tires to go on the .160 Douglas rims I'm getting. the rims I am getting are 10"

I run like 5 psi in the rears

it just seems like my rims bend REAL easy, I go riding on the same trails as other guys with 400ex and z400's and Banshees and they never have any problems...

 

I run 8-10lbs on the front and rear in rough territory.

D'd the stock baja rears 4 times at 5lbs.

jbt

 

well like wat part of the rim is bending? like the outter edge where the tire beads against or wat? maybe you need some with reinforcing rings

 

My rims do that too. It doesn't happen from jumps, it happens from big rocks. Here on the East Coast you can't avoid them and everytime I ride I bend at least one rim. Anyone know where to get steel rims or reinforcing rings?

 

I've got some pretty good scrapes but no dents, it's nothing but rocks where I ride, I run 5 psi. Just my $.02.