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Title: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: lodge on December 06, 2008, 02:19 PM
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh280/macky573021/n525562293_1029467_8387.jpg)

Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: magna13 on December 06, 2008, 02:24 PM
 :shocked: but surely by todays standards the stuff they are made from is much stronger???
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: spleen1970 on December 06, 2008, 02:24 PM
but they go back into shape unlike spokes


but spokes will never ever look as cool as tuffs!!! :4_17_5:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: MartyC on December 06, 2008, 02:38 PM
I've seen plenty of riders do that to spoked wheels bitd too, even one or two new school 48's of late  :P  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: meticulous on December 06, 2008, 02:40 PM
I've seen plenty of riders do that to spoked wheels bitd too, even one or two new school 48's of late  :P  :LolLolLolLol:

here!here!... if them wheels were spokes they would have doubled over... :shocked:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: OrgasmDonor on December 06, 2008, 03:50 PM
i was a die hard tuff fan and only ran tuffs from when i got back into riding and had no problem with them, loved them, then i rode spokes for a while n tried going back to tuffs, fookin no way! the flex, after you get used to spokes, is fookin unbelieveble, you just don't realise. spokes all the way now for me im afraid.
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: meticulous on December 06, 2008, 05:55 PM
get some graffites then.... :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: darkersomeday on December 06, 2008, 06:01 PM
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g171/jarvicseven/motobois2.jpg)
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: sweetbeats on December 06, 2008, 06:01 PM
Tuffs Rule
And look so Cool
if you aint got tuffs
Your bike is a Fool  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: firebird4130 on December 06, 2008, 06:07 PM
I bet those 2 dudes on the wooden bikes are off to the secret jungle trails  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: sweetbeats on December 06, 2008, 06:09 PM
Loving them wooden bikes...genius them.
Be good with some of uncle del's decals on....timberstylers ;D
The one below looks like it has wooden box cranks on :)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ll418/jasonscottpics/woodbike-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: southend_styler on December 06, 2008, 06:21 PM
Not just tuffs  ;)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g93/bobble_2006/ridebikes%20pics/acs85zrims.jpg)
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: magna13 on December 06, 2008, 06:54 PM
 :shocked:, never seen Z-Rims like that before!
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: phantom photon on December 06, 2008, 09:54 PM
I used to do that with my Z-rims bitd - only thing is you would snap 1 or 2 spokes everytime  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: OrgasmDonor on December 06, 2008, 10:10 PM
:shocked:, never seen Z-Rims like that before!

every set of zeds looked like that at one time or another, it was obligatory in the 80's :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: bmxer4ever on December 06, 2008, 10:27 PM


Who's the rider?
Looks familiar, I was thinkin' Craig or Lee or Simon...
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: lodge on December 06, 2008, 10:29 PM
CC
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: scott250 on December 06, 2008, 11:43 PM
Tuffs are rubish, hahaha.  Sorry to you die hard lovers, but they are just rubbish.  Flex feels horrible and they just shater if you landed badly on a 360 for eg.  Yer they looked cool back in the 80s but a bit of wind and you were blown to flying 90 of death, haha.  I had z rims in the 80s too and yes every time I landed to bend the rim 90 a few spokes went as phantom photon has said, haha.
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: Darkshadow on December 07, 2008, 12:12 AM
But you cant get spokey dokeys for tuffs.
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: aditup 2234 on December 07, 2008, 09:01 AM
Other than the FLEX problem, the main thing, IMHO is the "drag" they cause. They are totally un-aerodynamic. Just spin one between your hands and feel the air they displace in your face. They must take so much energy just to overcome that.
That apprecited, it is a joke really to see OS boys racing with them.
They are the coolest looking wheel though, without doubt.
Ad  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Why riders dont run Tuffs nowadays.
Post by: CD17 on December 07, 2008, 05:10 PM
Tuffs are for looking good on an old skool build  8)

Spokes are for riding  :daumenhoch:
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