"kenny" wrote in message
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Have a number of dented off road bike rims. Need to get them straight if
possible. Anyone have an idea of how to do this successfully?

kenny

Steel rims can be squeesed back into shape - well nearly back into
shape. A pair of long handle pliers can be used, but it depends on
where the ding on the rim is. If the ding os on the outside of the rim
and not on the inside its impossible to fix - just live with it. I'd also
say that any ding that has caused the chrome to break away from
the surface is probably deep enough to have caused the metal to
become suspect - send off to the rubbish tip.

Alloy rims are always consigned to the rubbish dump. Reworking
the alloy rims makes them brittle. BMW produced some lovely
brittle rims back in the early 1980s, hitting a pothole was enough
to crack them.