LAF
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I agree!I guess this is where you take the fork in the road to the left, and I head to the fork on the right. If you're comfortable with that...I'm happy for you and would wish you well.That damage to the OP's wheel is a joke to the guys that fix rims, I'd repair that in a heartbeat for $150.
Since I'm not the trusting kind, and know just enough of metals to be dangerous I would not...and would spend the money for a new wheel. It would take a full day treatise from a doctorate in mettallurgy on how this could be repaired fully to convince me that that sort of rupture in the aluminum wheel could be made right. But that's just me.
Either way, I'm glad the OP made out without serious injury.
After I go through the insurance process and have my new parts and see what the inside looks like I will determine if it even satisfies as a spare. I doubt it.
Not that I don't believe you guys who advocate for a repair, I can. However it is me and I want new. Just who I am. I am not rich and do not even have a job, but I will cover the cost of parts new, insurance or not.
I can not even believe anyone would re-use the bearings. I mean OMG it laid that rim up like a tin can, at a spoke no less, and you would take a chance that impact did not scare, flat, deform even one ball bearing in those bearings?
Maybe it is just one of those "got to be there" things?
Seriously I do hear you guys saying fix it, and I may once I see the inside, but I think it is going to be ugly, and any shade change of metal (indication of stretching in my mind)on the inside, or as I suspect a crack, and it goes to the dump. I would not even "Pay It Forward" as I consider it a safety issue and would not do it.
Again just me and what I feel comfortable with, not being ungrateful for information given when I asked.
The turning point is as I said, when in a calmer state of mind and eye the next day, I just would never trust it or get the picture out of my mind. You can see the crack I am talking about in the pics I posted.
Insurance man is coming Friday morning so Friday afternoon I will see the inside of the rim and snap pictures then.
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