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Old Aug 20, 2012 | 01:28 PM
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I have a 2007 night train and am looking at some fat spoke rims, what is the best size to get, for the rear I was looking at 18x5.5 but I read somewhere that it pulls the 200mm tire in and makes it look smaller, and a 21 for the front but I'm wondering how wide I can go without having to change the fenders. And last I'm wondering what you all think about what color combo to go with, it's black denim night train with black carlini evil apes and the whole front end is chromed, no black lowers, all black with chrome nipple and hub or mix and match the spoke color and the rim color, opinions?
 
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Old Aug 20, 2012 | 02:37 PM
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If you can find someone who makes a 17x6.25 you could run that and it will make the 200 nice and fat. However I know the vendor we use does not make that size. The 200 tire will be sucked in a little on an 18x5.5 as opposed to the stock 6" wide rear rim.

For the front, 21x2.15 is your stock size.
 
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