What do you have for rims, brand, thickness, and style? Have you bent them? Should they have bent, like if you hit a tree at 60 I am sure that would bend? Are reinforcing rings worth the $$$?

I need four new wheels but I am not sure what I want to get. I think .190 Douglasses but thats not deffinate. Any help would be apreciated. O and .125 are gonna cut it, mine are square.

 

I run douglas 190s . Wheels on quads never stay perfect for long. The .190s are pretty tuff

 

i have .125s on the raptor that was a mistake. fortunately, i can pound them back out with a plastic [comp] hammer.
put douglas 190s on the back of the blaster, and the kid hit a rock last weekend. it bent the front factory steel wheel but didnt hurt the douglas 190. there could be a lot of reasons for this, but.......

not sure about the thin pnes. theyre easy to straighten and it leaves no marks....but a stiffer wheel would do what? bend and stay bent?
i dont know.. thats a tough one.

were I do reshod the raptor i'd prob use the 190s.

hope this helps...
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It's only $20 more to up-grade to the .190's. I think it would be well worth the money.

 

I like to use .190's with beadlocks and rings.....worth the money in my opinion. I can't count how many times I've trashed .125's and .190's without the beads and rings.

 

Get the .190's with rings for all four, they'll last a LOT longer.

FTI: I have bent the inner rings on the rear wheels landing hard off BIG jumps.

 

ITP .190 with rings. I have many sets of .125s, .160, and .190 in douglas and itp. Personally, I like itp wheels better. They seem to hold polish better and seem to be more resiliant. ITP now offers wheels with rolled edge like factory. These will be stronger than standard .190's without the cost of rings. However, don't the rings look trick? I know they do on my banshee.

 

I want the rings but $114 is the cheapest I have found them, any good places to shop?

I want the rings for the strength and they do look trick.

Thanks alot for the responses guys.

 

Ronnie's Mail Order!!!! If you recall, that is where I found mine. $109 each was the cheapest price too. Get the ITP's if you are going reinforced. Some others (the older Douglas's that I have on the TT bike front) don't have holes far out enough in the ring to let water/mud/sand out of the wheel which causes balance problems.

 

I have Douglas .190's but am looking at some ITP Beadlocks right now with black finish.

Anyone have the beadlocks?