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dancing james
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What I mean is there must be a sweet spot between "too worn for further braking" and "too worn to maintain structural integrity" right? If there's a rim wear indicator I assume it denotes this point. Or to be more specific, the rim wear indicator indicates that if you continue to brake on it you will soon compromise the structural integrity of the walls. But with a safety margin and a little dash of planned obsolescence thrown in.
If you continue to ride it without braking on it, sure it probably won't last very long, but should get plenty of mileage out of it until the spoke bed bits start to fail or the walls fail due to pot holes and whatnot.
With the wrong brake pads I have no idea, again I assume that "braking on this rim will be deadly" does not mean the same as "this rim will explode when you put a new tyre on it" but I am more than willing to accept I'm wrong on this one - I don't want to mess about with delamination and stuff
I would obviously have to find rims that hit that sweet spot which could be difficult... but given that they just get thrown away otherwise and there's no market for them, there's probably a lot of them about