Originally Posted by
Schweinhund
Not quite. It's still going to flex like all rims do. Taut spokes lessen that some but not completely. Fact remains that the pins are clearly bent.
FBinNY pointed out in post 6 that the problem is not bent pins but rather that the ends of that rim extrusion were cut square and therefore could not be made to meet perfectly from the top to the bottom of the rim when it was formed into a hoop. The rim would look the way it does whether or not the pins were bent.