Billet Wheels?

[Maddog]

I picked up a Expert X at the end of last season from this site. It has the Billet oversized wheels. I am concearned with the life of the wheels. I have a Warrior which is studded in the outer cord. Should I look for a Poly type wheel. Thanks

 

[LazyBastard]

If anything metal will ever touch the wheels, then there MUST be rubber on them, otherwise they'll get chewed right off the first time you take it out.

 

[jimmie d]

They look great but normally do not hold up.

Jim

 

[Maddog]

They do have the rubber on them, but there is not much there.

 

[Cubby's RX-1]

I picked up a Expert X at the end of last season from this site. It has the Billet oversized wheels. I am concearned with the life of the wheels. I have a Warrior which is studded in the outer cord. Should I look for a Poly type wheel. Thanks

Please TAKE THOSE STUPID THINGS OFF, NOW. I dont mean to yell but I spent well over 600 bucks for billet wheels, with rubber on them, and tha friggin things still left me stranded. THEY ARE JUNK. They are ok to use in powder & mountain riding but forget about using them on the trails
..........Cubby

 

[pro116]

cubby which one's did you have?

 

[Cubby's RX-1]

cubby which one's did you have?

My beautiful wheels were made by Chris Iverson at Performance Engineering, or should I say Non-Performance Un-Engineered. After the rubber came off in the same place 3 times and the bogey wheels fell a part, I sent them back with a tactfull letter that asked him for a refund. He never got back to me or sent me a refund. I found out later that he went out of business. Hmmm I guess I bankrupted his company asking for my 600 bucks back..................Cubby

 

[pro116]

The one's my buddy make's last he signed a contract with wahl bros. now wahl last year started selling special designed one 's to arctic cat which my buddy makes check them out.

 

[Tork]

For trail riding they can bend easy. Plastic wheels dont ice up that bad, but metal wheels look like rotating dirty ice balls a lot of the time. Just my $.02

 

[pro116]

www.wahlracing.com/store/index.php?cPath=2_71_59_451

 

[pro116]

www.catalogs.50below.com/catalogengine/ ... atalog.pdf

 

[Cubby's RX-1]

Thanks for tha info Pro116. Those look real beefy compared to what I had and they look to be priced reasonably. I might wanna try those in the near future if my polished stainless steel spinners on my plastic bogeys dont work out.....................Cubby

 

[pro116]

No problem I have only ran them on the ice, grass and asphalt.I know a few people that have put thousands of trail miles on with trail studs.The bad thing is I can']t get them directly throught him because of the contract with wahl brothers.

 

[rxrider]

Chubby

Thanks for the advice not to buy alu wheels, you saved me a lot of $$.

I was thinking of going that way myself on my '03 TRX-1. I have my track studded outside the rails, guess I would have ended up stranded. I will stay with the plastic wheels which is still in pretty good shape with 5000 miles on them. I will only add a forth-wheel-kit to get the xtra big idler at the rear of the skid and change out all idler wheel bearings.

 

[zrnewf]

If you are not studded should be fine right?