Hi,
How do you choose which to get when buying the new TC Max?
thanks
For off-road use. Take the one with spokes. For normal Motorcycle rides choose the Alloy one.
Early production problems with the "TC" not TC-max alloy wheels made one spoke brake after usage. The TS have fatter spokes and have not had this issue. If that scares you, it scares me I would just choose the spoke wheel and to learn to redo / adjust spokes if ever needed myself as it might be hard in the high-income world to find workers to just adjust your wheel for a 10er when they want 100s of dollar for service. I can redo spokes. Easy. also 2nd benefit is the lower weight of the wheels so maybe a few percent faster acceleration?
Good luck with your choice Ewayfarer
@flyingelectric thanks, I will probably have to get spokes coz my dealership are out of alloy. R u saying that spoke wheels are lighter than alloys?
Alloy wheels.
Just take care on bumps, in general wheels can be easily damaged if riding on bumps on high speed. Spokes wheels will also suffer and are more difficult to maintain.
@ewayfarer Probably. I had a choice when I bought mine. I took one look at the chromed spokes and thought "rust". I chose the alloys. Interestingly mine don't have the shiny details. The whole wheel is grey.
I'm not into the retro cafe racer look though.
Spokes look vintage and work a bit better on bumpers. In fact - some say they are more durable. Alloy may just more easy brake. But look is much better.
What makes a bit confising - is hard balancing a tubed wheel (if I express it right). Tube is more tricky once you change tyres. I've just did it as original are to plastic = slippy for me. And I will have to demount wheels again soon to try to balance them after some kms of riding.
Thank you to everyone for their responses, it seems alloys are favoured in Australia too because they're all out of stock here, so instead of being patient and waiting for more stock to come in like a normal person would, I've gone ahead and bought a spokes one which I didn't really want.
I'll let you know in this forum if I get issues with rust etc.
cheers
@ewayfarer - I saw just 2 posts refering to rust (but not on alloys) and another two about problems with damaged alluminium wheels. I suppose a few bikes could be made wrong. Some problems also refered to older models. And I wrote some info about problems with foot sensor in TC max - solved last year be new delivered parts.
Indyvidual malfunction happen to cars as well. In general for TCmax - looks like so far it is just a margin.
