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The Street => The Bike Shop => Topic started by: meathead on September 15, 2015, 08:38:09 AM
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i need of a bit of help,does anyone know anything about them cant seem to find out anything online.
cheers
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Not much more than it being everyones favorite obscure rim back in the days. Have you found one? I remember people looking everywhere for them like 10 years ago.
Think double wall and low profile rims that were quite light.
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Not much more than it being everyones favorite obscure rim back in the days. Have you found one? I remember people looking everywhere for them like 10 years ago.
Think double wall and low profile rims that were quite light.
i have indeed , welded? good for brakes?
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Quite sure that it is welded. Think most people used it as a light front rim. Also quite sure it was actually designed for race and as such good for brakes.
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just ge ta haz light I thought they were similar.
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just ge ta haz light I thought they were similar.
when the araya is a tenna and a hazard lite is 30 quid?
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There is a difference between the regular 7X and the Super 7X. Apparently the regular 7x was shit, but I cant say for sure, as all the Araya rims I had when I was younger were the Super 7Xs, which were great until the chrome flaked off.
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7x was very light and very weak.
Super 7x was fairly light and fairly weak.
Chrome was good on some batches, shit on others. Older Araya rims had amazing chrome somehow but it got worse..
:)
G.
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Super 7X were similar to Rhyno Lites, perhaps a bit tougher. Chrome was generally shit in my experience. The best Araya rim was by far the RB-J1.
(http://www.araya-kk.co.jp/rim/archive/2006/catalog/31_RB-J1(HIMIKO).jpg)
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i got a couple of these cheap a couple of years back cos they were 48s but not laced em to anything yet
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I'd pay the extra 20 for a haz lite
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I had Super 7X on Suzue hubs and Comp IIIs, still probably my favourite wheelset. Dunno about riding street on em but for trails they were great. I must have had the good chrome ones because they never peeled, just gradually faded.
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All of my and my friends' haz lites had huge issues with the chrome. started peeling within a year and then basically became useless.
Could have been an issue with the weather and road salt perhaps, as we rode everywhere and anytime back in the day. I would stay far away from them.
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I ridden chrome Hazard Lites and chrome 7KAs with a brake for considerable amount of time. No issues with peeling whatsoever. Not to be too much of a fan boy, but the modern day hard anodized black rims have held up and lock up great with brake use for over a year so far. Except the dings from me, finish looks great. Feel like I'm done with chrome rims unless I want em solely for looks one day.
Just something to consider, BMX technology has improved considerably in two decades :)
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100% of the rims I've destroyed were 7xs. I look at them as having nostalgic value and nothing more.
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7x were never real popular as I can remember. As Aesop mentioned, the RB-J1 Himiko were the ones people wanted.
If anyone has 1 or 2 in decent condition I may be interested.
(http://bmxmuseum.com/forsale/dsc09377_blowup.jpg)
(http://bmxmuseum.com/forsale/rim_1_copy2_blowup.jpg)
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super 7Xs were great............ i still have a couple sets
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I have one RBJ1, but it's not for sale. I use to have two then sold one, and regret it to this day. I seriously can't believe how I got my hands on these things when I was a kid.
I had to save up my lunch money for like a month before I could buy a used primo pro cassette, used spokes and used RBJ1(still looked decent with all the japan stickers and all). Then I had to save another week so i can get a bike shop to lace it for me. As you can imagine, they had a nightmare putting together a used wheel, but they got it done nicely.
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Hi, does anybody know what year the Araya Himiko RB-J1 rims came out?
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I remember every man and his dog had 7x back in the day, but they couldn't hack much. I don't remember anyone commenting about Himikos. What that means I dunno
Still fond of haz lites as a budget rim but the chrome is no good. Some people seem to get lucky, but I gave away like 4 of them because of the chrome failing
These days I just run ano rims and save myself the anguish
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Still fond of haz lites as a budget rim but the chrome is no good. Some people seem to get lucky, but I gave away like 4 of them because of the chrome failing
They never fixed that? Me and a few friends got them when they first came out aaaaaages ago. They all looked horrible after just a few months. Thought they would fix that...
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Good question Garth. I remember George commenting on it but I don't remember what he said apart from him saying that you could return faulty chrome rims, which I never did
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Hi, does anybody know what year the Araya Himiko RB-J1 rims came out?
2000-2001 I believe. They were standard on the XS 4X4 wheelset which I believe would have been around that same time period, maybe earlier.
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I wanted those XS hubs so bad back then.