Indent in rim

[sneekyjesus]

From travel. Holding air sitting there. Thoughts?

 

[GSTim]

Pics? I would go with it if no cracks. I bought my bike used with a fairly substantial dent in the rim and have been running tubeless for over 5 years with no issues.

 

[sneekyjesus]

 

[mattybfat]

Use a adjustable wrench and flex it back I've seen worse with no problems

 

[pooriggy]

I believe Stans makes a tool that straightens bent rims...or they did at one time. It's better then an adjustable because it's a more positive fit on the rim when bending it back into place. Some bike shops my have such a tool.

 

[mattybfat]

@pooriggy you are probably think of Morningstar tools rim dent tool.
Sadly he passed.
http://morningstartools.com/
I am sure there is others though.

 

[jmanic]

Having a history of buying used bikes from questionable sources, I will +1 the crescent wrench for the job.
A specialized tool might be better, but I've had good results.

 

[Kirt]

Pretty sure @jimvreeland has the correct tool for the job.

 

[Karate Monkey]

Unofrtunately Paul of Morningstar fame is no longer with us, but someone has picked up the slack, at least for that one tool.

It's easy enough to make if you have access to a rat-tail file, a mill file, and an adjustable wrench you don't like, though.

 

[GSTim]

Pretty sure @jimvreeland has the correct tool for the job.

TWSS

 

[Ed471]

I have one of the wrenches and if you'd like to travel to Brick I'd be happy to straighten it out for you. Pm me if interested. You can come by we can get the dent out and I'm only a couple of minutes from allaire so you can go for a ride after