Has anyone tried these? I've always been curious how they worked, but never heard any first-hand feedback.
THE Eliminator Rims
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...as if DH tires weren't already hard enough to get off...
They don't, it was a very dumb idea.w00dy said:
1. how do you get a tire on without 3 hands and HUGE tire levers?
2. you just decreased your air volume by 1/2, imagine how many times your going to hit your rim now
3. they are heavy as sh*t
and those are the strong points
I find this hard to ask without sounding like a dick, but did any of you actually own them?
Products can be poorly designed and have obvious bad points without having to ride them to find out.w00dy said:
Look at where the tire bead sits. They're going to be difficult to get off.
Look at the the raised center, that's a decrease in air volume, and air volume is a desirable thing.
Interesting idea, but they just went ahead and tried to fix one problem without full consideration of the other problems they'd cause.
In answer to your question, though, no, I haven't ridden them.
Nobody owns them. And there is likley a reason for that.
Ok, well I'm not looking for speculation, thank you for your reply, but I'm plenty good at doing that myself. What I was really asking for was somebody who has used them to give me a thorough review.
Call up THE, I'm sure Toby will tell you everything you want to hearw00dy said:
He'll prolly sell you a box of em for $20!
Oh that was internet specluation! Quick, I better give myself 20 lashes!
Dude, its hard getting a thorough review on a sh*t product that no one bought, good luck
Thanks for the help Zark 
Anyone have something helpful to add?
Anyone have something helpful to add?
Well, okay, then what is not speculation is that I have seen at least 5 threads on various boards (including this one) asking this exact same question - "Are these any good?"w00dy said:
So far, there has been not one review of someone who owned them. The closest I saw was one guy who said he had a friend who owned them and he had to cut the tires off the rim.
So, take that for whatever its worth. If it had really eliminated pinch flats entirely without severe drawbacks, it probably would have sold like gangbusters.
Good luck with your search for reviews! Let us (well me anyway) know if you find any - I'd be interested to see some.
I had a pair. Here is my review:
Did not like them at all!
Did not like them at all!
i had a friend who had one. after much effort he finally got the tire mounted, but the tube had been pinched in the process. he couldn't get the tire off the rim w/o resorting to cutting the rim in half w/ a hacksaw.
there's yr glowing product review. stay away!
there's yr glowing product review. stay away!
....Listen to them all...I had a pair of those made up and they were the worst things right from the word go....Because the "rim" is just a big heavy hunk of metal thats taken the form of a circle the nipples aren't strong enough to pull them into place,and you don't get a nice build. the first run down the hill had the rim hitting on every single rock and my wheel was rubbing on my frame with 4 broken spokes at the bottom of the hill....not good 
I ended up hacksawing the rims to save my Intense tyres.... :devil:
I ended up hacksawing the rims to save my Intense tyres.... :devil:
Hey, at least you've got your priorities straight!KATSURAGI said:
They sound like a good buy!
I also have a friend who tried one when they were first introduced. The concept basically doesn't work. He pinch-flatted the rear a few times. He's all of 120 lbs in full-gear (although he rides about as smooth as a bull in a china shop...).
Also confirmed the extreme difficulty with tire removal... Ended up cutting a tire off to fix a flat at a race... he wasn't happy about that...
He runs D3.1's now...
Also confirmed the extreme difficulty with tire removal... Ended up cutting a tire off to fix a flat at a race... he wasn't happy about that...
He runs D3.1's now...
Thanks for the advice everyone, I'll be sure to avoid those. Sorry if I copped an attitude to the first guys who replied, you were right, I just wanted to hear it from the source.
In case anyone wants to try them i have them 35 dollars a set on a blowout coming in this week
awesome. you will sell exactly zero of them. but if you would have read the thread from 6 years ago you bumped for no reason other than to spam, you wouldn't have bought them in the first place.
Don't you pay for banner ads? Wouldn't that be a better place to notify people than bumping a 6 year old thread?
If the guy pays for banner ads he can post what he wants. The site is free because of those ads
43 sets presold this evening thanks this gives me a great idea ridemonkey only deals
i see 44 sets being returned in your future
43 sets in 53minutes just topped 7 years of total sales
43 sets in 53minutes just topped 7 years of total sales
are they on the site?
do you have Shimano Airlines on blowout too?
do you have Shimano Airlines on blowout too?
Green double wides? 3.0 Gazzys?
Cool. You sold 43 suckers a product that is universally recognised, including the two mba reviews I've read of it, as one of the worst products of all time. I hope you've got thousands left. You'd probably sell asbestos and thalidomide too if you could.
Our next deal next week will be Intense Tire Systems Downhill Tubes lowest price on the internet period and i will offer it to ridemonkey exclusively
Holy bunch of haters. No one is forcing you guys to buy anything.
The guy pays for the site and posts an add for something that maybe someone wants (people buy a lot of dumb sh*t), give him a break.
-KT
The guy pays for the site and posts an add for something that maybe someone wants (people buy a lot of dumb sh*t), give him a break.
-KT
So my question is if you pop the rubber thing out go tubeless and make them your backup set or your harder riding set then why is it a bad thing..... Just asking Ill get a set and ride them, cant see them being too far off atomlab or other rims in the wide arena, maybe a buit wide but hell for the price and minus the center thingy its a cheap price so why not...... I detonate 6.1s, dps 32s etc so its no different....
Just asking and i havent seen a whole lot of reviews just others have said type stuff and a few popped on with a bit of time... But it seems the main thing is the center bulge for her pleasure, remove it and its a cheaper wheelset then outlaws...
Just asking and i havent seen a whole lot of reviews just others have said type stuff and a few popped on with a bit of time... But it seems the main thing is the center bulge for her pleasure, remove it and its a cheaper wheelset then outlaws...
You should get some Mag 30's.
if he wants to buy and sell them, it's on him. He's a paid advertiser, this isn't
. If he weren't paying, then I'd say go screw, but if people are actually interested in these rims, god bless em.
LOL I had mag 30s a long time ago.
For the price Im doing the wheelset so they will sit loaded with dirty dans or DH casings ready for tunnel, bootleg etc or when 1 of the I9s takes a hit and I dont want to ruin my weekend I can continue to ride....So actually its a pretty good insurance policy while out riding to save a otherwise perfectly good day. (of course take the rubber thing out)
I picked up a set of these for $125 back in April and use them for training, street riding and back up wheels on race weekends. For the cheap insurance its a no brainer for me. They are not very heavy but incredibly difficult to unmount tires. I removed the inner plastic strip, taped the seam, and run DH tubes.
Might come with a THE fork for free.
EDIT- I do remember a review in an Australian MTB mag from years ago, from memory they were impressed that you could run low pressures and manual at a gutter(kerb?) and only put small a ding in that stupid centre ridge and the tube wouldn't flat.
I really think if anyone buys them today they are a freakin retard, even back then they were so much heavier than a good rim yet THE claimed weight savings as you run lighter tubes, oh that's right 100g of aluminum is lighter tahn 100g of tube.
Cheap rim+ghetto tubless would be 10x better than a THE rim.
EDIT- I do remember a review in an Australian MTB mag from years ago, from memory they were impressed that you could run low pressures and manual at a gutter(kerb?) and only put small a ding in that stupid centre ridge and the tube wouldn't flat.
I really think if anyone buys them today they are a freakin retard, even back then they were so much heavier than a good rim yet THE claimed weight savings as you run lighter tubes, oh that's right 100g of aluminum is lighter tahn 100g of tube.
Cheap rim+ghetto tubless would be 10x better than a THE rim.
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Well as retarded as It makes me Im not running the center peice Im unmounting it taping em up and going tubeless. Figure $17.50 a rim makes for a great back up set.... Dont have to have them on there all the time but when I want to bash, practice or hit nasty lines I can sacrafice these vs. the race set...
Remove center bulge, tape center, go tubeless ='s a great back up set saving my I9s ='s priceless....
Note to that:
If they are hard to mount tires and have a good ridge they should make killer ghetto tubeless and be able to run some low PSI without rolling... Plus the width should pull the sidewalls in a bit and reduce gashing and rolling around at low pressure with a large volume tire...
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Ok The rims are listed on our site for sale 35 dollars per 2 rims we have both 32 and 36 hole available here is the link and set a fixed shipping cost of 10 dollars anywhere in the U.S.A.
http://www.discountedcycling.com/products/THE-Industries-26%22-rim-Set.html
http://www.discountedcycling.com/products/THE-Industries-26%22-rim-Set.html
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