So does everyone else! :chuckles:

I MIGHT pick up a set of Rota's for the winter.

 

big difference i agree.

but there are wheels that are semi forged being passed off as forged wheels. Regamaster/Spoon SW388's are not fully forged. Work Emotion CR/KAI are cast. Advan RG's, Buddy Club SF, Wedsport, and older Mugen wheels such as the RNR's, M7's, RG's are all cast. but they all charge an arm and a leg for it.

all in all..its all up to preference. whether you have a cast Mugen wheel vs. a cast Rota wheel...they are all going to bend and crack upon impact.

My Work RSB multipiece wheels are bent... Inspyral's old Advan RG's cracked and bent, my friend's Stern Beast Face 2's bent multiple times. We are all tired of getting our "nice" wheels fixed sometimes.

 

People only buy Spoon, Jun, Mugen etc for the name, Rota wheels are just as good, IMO

 

look at the rota copies and look at the original's. you'll see why the originals are so much more expensive. the looks can't be copied cheaply, and the real ones look the price.

 

but they both do the same thing. :dunno:


the extra 200 per wheel i can spend on something more "go" than something that "looks" better or give you a "higher status" symbol.

 

that's because the SW's have flat black finish while the ROTA's, i think have bronze and gunmetal finishes only. but believe me i've seen one, after painting it with flat black, you can't tell which is which. that's of course only applicable with the 15's, 'cause if you look closer to the 16's you'll notice that it has a different look with the 15's so it's easy to distinguish an SW 16's to a ROTA Sliptream 16's. BUT NOT THE 15'S.

 

If you look closer, the 15's and the 16's Rota Slipstreams have a different lip pattern.

The SW388/Regamaster EVO have a distinguished cleaner lip and slightly bigger spokes.

 

but my cousin once told me that ROTA's are a hell lot stronger than the SPOON's. that is because SPOON rims were made to be extra lightweight for the purpose of... RACING! and to think he has a good point.

 

the SW 15's have a different look with the SW 16's, and the slipstreams are just rip off of the 15's, not of the 16's (the slipstream 16's look just like the SW 15's and not of the SW 16's). this is what i meant by it would pretty easy to distingush a real SW 16's to a Slipstream 16's rather than a real SW 15's to a Slipsteram 15's.

 

I don't care if if everybodies got'em. I like'em so I run'em.

Austin