beadlock rings, double beadlocks?

OK, so I'm going to be welding some beadlock rings to the rims and I started to wonder if I don't want to weld something on the inside as well. I'm not worried as much about loosing a bead on the inside as I am about bending a rim (on a beadlocked rim it would suck if I trashed the rim). So I'm thinking about welding inner beadlock rings also on the inside of the tire without utilizing them for now (I can always remount the tire later to use them). What do you guys think?

not exactly sure what your saying but if you just looking to beef up the inside flange of the rim why not weld some steel to it around the perimiter. the other thing is with dual bead locks you run into problems with getting the tire getting out of round. why not run single bead locks with tubes that way even if you push in the inner bead you won't loose any air

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bj-666 said:

not exactly sure what your saying but if you just looking to beef up the inside flange of the rim why not weld some steel to it around the perimiter. the other thing is with dual bead locks you run into problems with getting the tire getting out of round. why not run single bead locks with tubes that way even if you push in the inner bead you won't loose any air

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well that's what would happen: the reinforcement would be an inner beadlock ring so that if I chose to, I could run it later as double beadlocks (sorry if I wasn't too clear but I am running on less then 4hrs of sleep now after spending half the night cutting beadlock rings out)

will you have enough clearance around your brakes?

Many of the beadlock makers (Stocton wheel, Champion, OMF, Trail-ready) offer the "inside re-inforcment ring" as an option.