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[pearcey277]

im looking at gettin a set i hiper carbon wheels are they any good, and is carbon fibre any good as a qaud wheel
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pearcey277
07 525 outlaw irs
08 husky te510 blinged
08 crf250r woodstock thor honda ex race bike

[Linc]

They are good wheels but they aren't carbon fibre.

[4stroker]

Linc wrote:

They are good wheels but they aren't carbon fibre.

huh?
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2002 SE Banshee

[Linc]

"carbon fiber composite resins " = reinforced plastic

They are not carbon fiber in the sence that we know carbon fibre to be. If they were they wouldn't last that long anyway as carbon fiber shatters.

I do like the wheels but I also think its false advertising.......HiPer give the impression that they are a Carbon Fiber wheel and they just aren't.

Linc

[BARN-6]

I find the wheels good in the sence that they do not buckle but if you have bead lockers and tension them to much it cracks around where the studs are in the rim and produces leaking

[pearcey277]

cheers guys i done a bit more research on the wheels and did read that they are a composite form. wheels do sound pretty good though
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pearcey277
07 525 outlaw irs
08 husky te510 blinged
08 crf250r woodstock thor honda ex race bike

[azza450]

Hipers are a great wheel but you need to look after them.

No they're not carbon fibre.

I believe the weight saving they advertise is also a crock.

In saying that they are seriously tough, just ask Smitty if he would have finished Finke in 2007 on any other wheel.

[4stroker]

Linc wrote:

"carbon fiber composite resins " = reinforced plastic They are not carbon fiber in the sence that we know carbon fibre to be. If they were they wouldn't last that long anyway as carbon fiber shatters. I do like the wheels but I also think its false advertising.......HiPer give the impression that they are a Carbon Fiber wheel and they just aren't. Linc

well there ya go, learn something new every day! thanks linc.
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2002 SE Banshee

[IC chill]

we ran a set and they were shi% they are broken very easily and also the lock rings break as well stick to douglas

[JONO]

azza450 wrote:

I believe the weight saving they advertise is also a crock.

your right aaron, when we weighed them in comparison to douglas beadlocks they weighed a fair bit more, i'll find out exact figures when dads home from finke

[PeteW]

We've been running them on Smittys quads for 5 years (we still have the original set he got then too) and have had a pretty good run with them, the lock rings do break if you over tighten then (as most people do by using rattle guns to do up the lock ring bolts) but they arent that expensive to replace either. because the they are a modular wheel you can replace parts on them as required rather than replacing a whole wheel and I've been able to repair hipers that would have been a throw away job with an alloy wheel.

the other bonus it if you change brands (say from yamaha to suzuki) then you can just get new centres for the wheels instead of having to replace the whole set
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[jumbo danny]

PeteW wrote:

We've been running them on Smittys quads for 5 years (we still have the original set he got then too) and have had a pretty good run with them, the lock rings do break if you over tighten then (as most people do by using rattle guns to do up the lock ring bolts) but they arent that expensive to replace either. because the they are a modular wheel you can replace parts on them as required rather than replacing a whole wheel and I've been able to repair hipers that would have been a throw away job with an alloy wheel. the other bonus it if you change brands (say from yamaha to suzuki) then you can just get new centres for the wheels instead of having to replace the whole set

yep as usually your right about the fact easy to change got inner rings off of Smitty all worked well but my very first set i took off the tyres replaced them and that when the "profanity removed" started the threaded studs started to pull thru and they never sealed again i try to contact hiper USA about a 6mth ago still no reply as far as iam concernd Douglas or if you want better value OMF BY HUSTLER or any one else that sells them they are strong as look the part and get repaired here in australia I've try other brands of wheels they all bend but the strongest Ive seen are still Douglas/OMF !
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[skidplate]

Did Finke this year on Hipers.
What I like about them is that changing tyres is very easy, no fighting with levers.

[Clarkie]

How do you get the bolts out of the rings when they just spin because the person who owned the bike before you was slack and didnt lube them when fitting tyres, now there stuck?
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