Question is to you guys who have had your Road King Classics awhile and have put a lot of miles on your bike. Was wondering how many trouble free miles you've put on your laced wheels without any problems of flats or broken spokes. I love the look of the spokes and don't mind cleaning them but have a chance to buy a set of black 9 spoke cast wheels at a good price. I've had 20k trouble free miles on mine and really don't want to change. My wife and I take several trips a summer on the bike 2 up.

 

I run both the spokes and chrome 9 spokes, local I keep the spokes on, have had 2 blow outs with the spokes, got the 9 spokes for my long rides out of town and keep a plug kit with me. works for me. if they are good price, they are worth having for the long rides.

 

Only 1,000 miles on mine. But then I have only had the bike a month and 10 days.

 

I have 12k on mine and love the looks, but just picked up a set of the black 9 spokes on ebay. Going to have them chromed and mounted with the wide white walls next time I need tires just for that safety/flat fix reason. I'd just rather do away with the tubes.

 

Close to 35K on mine. No problems...yet.

CN

 

I wonder what would happen if you put those run-flat tires on laced wheels with tubes?

 

07 RKC that was the main reason why I wanted the bike was the spoke wheels, (classic look) 12k trouble free. I am thinking of going with tubeless aluminum wheels, if a flat happens I can plug it just to get me home. the tube I have the slime stuff but not really sure if it's enough to get me home in the even of a flat.

 

I had an '02 Road King with spoked wheels. Ya they look great, but with about 50k on it, I had a rear flat. It turns out that the inside of the rim was completely rotten from rust. The crack is about 8 inches long and almost a quarter inch wide. Curiously, the rim was made in Italy and I don't understand why there was never any mention of the rims condition when tires were changed. I would never buy a bike again with spoked wheels; solid wheel are the way to go. My new bike is an '09 Ultra These wheels should be industructible compared to spoked.

 

42K and no problems yet.

 

25k on my '06 RK and no problems.