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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 09:04 AM
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Can you guys post pics of your SOLID front & rear rims? Any bad or good tp having solid rims? I head they are a bitch in a cross wind!
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:10 AM
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I have a 1999 Fatboy that had solid wheels and now has spokes. The crosswinds thing is a myth. The wind will blow you around just as much with or without the solid wheels. Don't let that myth stop you from doing what you want to do.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:11 AM
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:30 AM
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The cross wind thing is very real. I moved to SE mn and it is very windy here. I took them off within 2 months of living here. I would ride to work in the morning everything would be fine. Get off work the wind had picked up and I would litterly get blown across my lane. I even had other people ride it just to make sure it wasnt in my head. Solid wheels are fine on a bar hopper.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 01:12 PM
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Here is Hank Young's vision of a bike with solid front and rear wheels.

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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 02:12 PM
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 02:55 PM
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I cut mine and it made a difference next to semis and and any good windy day. I've only got the back one and I could feel it.

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