Wheels

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I pulled apart my Bomber’s this week for some work.  I’m not sure where I’m going. I feel like it’d be a shame to polish/blast them as it would destroy the 30 year old decaling that remains intact.   Ha!  I said they remain intact… but obviously just barely.  It’s still something… for a wheel geek like me.  All the bomber’s I’ve seen up until […]

Apart

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I like the bicycle inner tube method better myself… but that might be just because I always seem to over do it with flammable liquids.

Fire

I said Hayashi is the premier kyusha wheel maker, but that’s probably personal bias.  It’s pretty hard to deny that Speed Star has done more.  Founded in 1971, SSR claims to be the first to produce… A 3 piece wheel!  Yes, that’s notable.  Too bad they were only 3 piece wheels during the production process.  Almost all of them left the […]

Speed Star

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Hayashi is the premier kyusha wheel manufacturer. Founded in 1966, they made real race wheels. They made baller wheels for hashirya and bosozoku. Even forty years later some models are in such demand that they have gone back into production. Those that haven’t however, are extremely rare and valuable finds. The Yayoi is a phenomonom of it’s own, that at […]

Hayashi

It saddens me a little bit that good wheel sizes 20 years ago are not good wheels sizes today. If they were, I think Yokohama might be my favorite kyusha wheel company. Yokohama as a company in general is very likeable. They make good tires and winning race cars, support grass roots motorsports and have done so for almost the […]

Yokohama Advan