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Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
4/18/13 10:50 a.m.

In reply to Appleseed:

Seems like you could just add a trim ring to look like that after mounting the tire instead of forcing it over it. Like a retahd hubcap ring.

Anti-stance
Anti-stance UltraDork
4/18/13 11:03 a.m.
Appleseed wrote: I tried, tried, tried, to find a pic of the rimz. There is a secondary, true bead on them. How the hell they stretched the tire over the "beauty" ring, I'll never know.

It's probably a reverse mount. The drop center is on the back barrel and the front barrel has a bigger diameter.

The0retical
The0retical Reader
4/18/13 4:13 p.m.
Appleseed wrote: I tried, tried, tried, to find a pic of the rimz. There is a secondary, true bead on them. How the hell they stretched the tire over the "beauty" ring, I'll never know.

I knew I saw the build thread for this thing somewhere.

http://noriyaro.com/?p=8554

And how they inflated the tire well sort of:

Kawashima: The inner side of the tyre is beaded as normal, and it has 600kPa (almost 87psi) of air to keep the outer tyre bead on the rim. I drove it here on Friday night from Tokyo on the expressway like this.

http://noriyaro.com/?p=8777

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