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i snapped two spokes today and when i was putting them back i noticed that the seam of the rim (gsport rollcage) seemed cracked. although i don't think it's cracked, just to make sure, here is how the seam looks. the rim is like 1 month and a half old and when i true it there is a small movement to the left side in the seam (which is impossible to true), but maybe this is common in welded seams?
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most rims have noticeable seams. hard to tell though. never rode a gsport
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not a crack, mine looked the same when I had Rollcages & I thought it was a crack too but it's not
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sundaybmxRR wrote:not a crack, mine looked the same when I had Rollcages & I thought it was a crack too but it's not
did yours have the small hop/movement to any side in the seam?
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idk what you mean by that but here's what mine looks like 
if you meant does it wobble back & forth like it's out of true in that area, then no but if I rub my finger along the rim's wall I can feel a slight bump
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Nope. Just not welded right there. And you probably have a strange spoke tension thing going on in your rim. That's all!
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okay thanks for the help, and about the small movement/hop in the seam, i don't think that it's because the spoke tension in the aerea, because the wheel is really true, the only area that is "out of true" is the seam, which does a quick movement to the left and goes back to the true position after leaving that area, i know it's impossible to fix, but i wanted to know if this is common in welded seams
