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Ooooh, shiny! I notice you guys always make your wheels two pieces, and I've never really known why... care to enlighten me?

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There's a chamfered groove in each half that acts as a beadlock style wheel and captures the tread.

In the past we've actually run the wheels with no rivets, to hold the ends down, and it works just fine

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jskowski/459486148/

should give you a better idea....ive highlighted some of the points of interest on the photo

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haha! Thanks, you did the explaining for us!

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Sweet. Our wheels have the lip on the edge, but we just rivet. Does the 2 piece give any major advantages to offset the weight of cap screws to hold it together?

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The weight pretty much is negligible, as far as we're concerned. The wheel weighs something like 0.23 lbs.

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I've tried to explain it to several people before, it always seems easier to do it this way.