Does anybody know anyone or any place that can fix this properly? My past experience is that the aluminum cracks if I just bent back with plyers, causing it to no longer be tubeless.
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Put a chunk of hardwood on it and tap it with a hammer.
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Clamp rim in jaws of a vice?
I agree with wood and hammer.
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Think that won’t crack it for some reason?
Try heating it up a bit first? Take your time with the hits.
Honestly, what do you have to lose? It likely won’t hold air in its present state, so it’s either this or buy a new rim. I have a few dents in my new Hunt wheels, and was able to bend them back so they still hold air with an adjustable wrench and a thick rag. They don’t look perfect, but the wheel is still round and true and more importantly, it holds air.
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I’ll give it a try. I suppose I could just use some epoxy if it cracks.
I hope it works out but if it doesn’t I have a DT Swiss Front wheel for sale.
29" 110 boost. It has the rotor and a 50%ish Bontranger tire mounted tubeless. Perfectly good but replaced so I could match the rear wheel both in model and color
Matching is my primary concern with this bike. Just two months ago I had a new rear hub and spokes installed on this hoop. I’d like to just a buy the exact same hoop, in the same colours, but that’s nearly impossible. Current Sun Ringle Duroc offerings have a different graphics design and colour, which were probably Rocky Mountain specific on my wheels.
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I swapped mine for precisely the reason that it didn’t match my new frame.
You gotta look good to be good 
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I’ve had luck using a piece of tight fitting wood inside the rim and a piece outside and tapping lightly with a nylon head hammer.
I was thinking of this too. I gotta get my table saw down from Moncton to do this.
If it does crack, Rod’s Machine shop in Burnside does a lot of cracked aluminum car wheel repairs, would think they could weld/repair an aluminum bicycle rim as well.
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