Trying to find whitewalls for my Bob. I've seen some on the forum but haven't been able to find any to fit stock rims. Any suggestions?????

 

no 17 inch white walls man you got to lace a 16 to your hub if you want white walls

 

I agree. I tried tofind them too but learned that the sideprofile is to small so they don't make them.

 

Paint 'em on.

 

I have done them both ways, paint from gentleman in Iceland and switched over to 16" rim with whitewalls. Either way will work, but in my personal opinion I went with the 16" rim and this is where I am staying.
I had an issue with the paint. After some time (4 months or so) the paint started to turn a yellowish color and then started to peal. I contact the guy that makes the stuff in Iceland and he was very helpful. He said that if you have tires that have had any tire shine stuff put on you may have this problem without an extremley good cleaning effort. I was frustrated at this time and did not want to take the time to fix them so I tried to convert to a 16" rim. All you need is a 16" rim and spokes and then re-use your hub. I did a write up on this some time ago and what you need to be aware of, for instance you may have to slightly bend the spokes to get them to work, but I have a little jig that worked great and as far as lacing a rear rim, easy really. The front is the pain in the butt. After you get it laced you will need to have it "trued". This is the only part I can not do and did not do. After that, pick your whitewall tire out and install. Total difference in hight of two with tires, less than 1/2".
Do a search on 16" rim here you should find it if you are interested and/or pm me and I will do what I can to help.

 

here is the 16" rim and whitewall.

 

Thanks for all the responses, I was thinking it was just me. Stanger, looks really nice - your's is the bike I've seen in other posts. Love that look. Going to start lookin' for a 16" rim and I'll research your post more. Thanks again.

 

olno7,

I used a bagger 16" rim. I did not care what the hub was cause I was using my stock hub. You will need the spokes from the 16" rim. i used the manual to see how to lace the rim. A hint when doing it, put the rim itself on a flt surface (bench or table). Then put something an inch or two tall just a bit bigger than the hub under the hub and place both in the middle of the rim. This helps with the angles that the spokes need to be laced easier. When lacing the rim take all the spokes and insert them into the "top" ledge of the hub but only the bottom row of holes 1st, starting from the underside of the lip going up. As you get them up I used a tape roll to hold them all up in the air. They will form a cylider shape as you pull them all up. Next you take one spoke, pull it from the bunch and lay it down towards the rim. If you look at the rim dimples (where the holes are in the rim) you will notice that some are angled one direction and towards the upper lip of the hub and then some are angled the same direction but down towards the lower rim of the hub and then some are angled the oppsite direction and up and then some same direction but down. So there is a pattern established there. Every forth hole in the rim is the same direction and towards the same lip of the hub. So you start from lets say hole 1 (top lip of hub, bottom row of holes), it will either go right or left and will match up with a hole on the rim somewhere, just find a hole that is towards the top lip and angled correct. Next you take the next spoke from the hub and lay it the same dircection and now count 4 holes over from the one you just put in on the rim and it should line up. You continue this pattern all the way around the hub tell all the lower holes you have spokes in are laced. Now you do the same but with the upper row of holes but reverse the direction of the spokes, ten lower holes and ten upper holes. Note that you just put the spoke nuts on a few threads. Now after you have one side of the spokes in, turn over the rim and hub and do the other side. After you have this all done I just slowly tightened up the nuts evenly until they were just snug and then take it to someone who can true them up and that is how you can lace your own rims.i have done the rearrim a few times now and to be honest the rear is really not to hard, now thefrontrim, well that is another story! That is a pain in the butt!I would explain why butthat would take to long and in this case notneeded at this point.
Attached is a pic of my rearrim up close so thatyou can see the pattern. Try it, count the holes in the rim and compare where they go to on the hub andyou will see what I mean about every 4th hole in the rimgoes to the next holeon the hub.
if you have anyquestions, please feel free to pm me if needed.
Good luck!!!