Forgotten Bicycle Technology

From my bmx days the acs z zim. When I got mine I bent the hell out of them on purpose waiting for them to miraculously flex back true. The result - bent rims. Put them in the freezer, the result - cold bent rims and an angry mum:

Scroll down to see how they were marketed

http://www.23mag.com/com/acs/acs.htm

Lying cnuts.

I had ACS z wheels on my Burner. You needed special brake pads too. The wheels were tough and light - much more so than the standard crap which I had quickly destroyed. But then I didn't deliberately bend the hell out of mine ;-)

My mum gave my z-wheel equipped Burner to the kid next door some years ago. I was not pleased.

Weren't mag-lites a seven spoke version of the Skyway Tuff? Were they magnesium alloy rather than nylon?