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Old 09-10-19, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by DrIsotope
That's not from a bump, that's the nipple being pulled through the rim by too much spoke tension. Probably way too much spoke tension.
That's an extremely common failure mode of an aluminum rim, and may have nothing to do with spoke tension.
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