Britbike forum Forums Thread Like Summary - Tyre security bolt redux

Putting the rear wheel for the 70 Bonneville back together and just pulled the new security bolts out of the package.
(Some PO had removed them)
The only comparison I have is the 67 Bonneville.
Those bolts have a thick rubber washer under the washer which is under the hex nut.

The new bolt has no rubber washer, and it doesn't seem right to grind the washer down onto the rim, as it comes in contact with the adjacent rim dimples.

The parts books for both show 3 unidentified objects as forming the attachment for the security shoe.

Is the rubber washer something a PO has added?
If the rubber washer is standard, anybody happen to have a P/N?

Cheers

The original washers were leather.

Rim Locks are no longer needed. They come from an age when people (real men) regularly rode these bikes off-road. If you're running modern tires fully inflated, and never leave the pavement, then you will never need Rim Locks.

Now that you mention it, I guess they were. I had assumed they were rubber with fiber, like the automotive hose.


Did you weigh in on the debate in the other thread on this topic? I'm generally of the same opinion as you, and I shed my rim locks years ago, but after the one testimonial about a deflated tire coming off the rim, I decided to just clam up about it.

My '67 A65L originally had those one-side-concave rubber washers, which deteriorated to the point that they needed replacement. I made my replacements out of double-walled automotive fuel hose. Resilient stuff because it has fibers in it, doesn't spread when you tighten down the nut.