Sounds kinda like using "motor" when the entire assembly is actually an
"engine" & there are motors in the engine assembly?

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-but who's splitting hairs among friends

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Okay, I was going to begin a Jeff-like rant on the use of the word "rims"
> when actually speaking of wheels.  The rim, as you know, is the outer
> portion of a wheel on which the tire is mounted.  The hub portion of the
> wheel bolts to the vehicle.  Hub + rim = wheel.
> Anyway, both the OP and the next P use the word "wheel" in the body of
> their posts so it's becoming a moot rant but I stand by my dislike of the
> use of rims when speaking of wheels.  Back in my bike shop days when
> someone would ask for a 27" ree-im that is what we'd hand him.  When he'd
> ask about the spokes and other stuff it's supposed to have we'd say, "Oh,
> you want a WHEEL!  Why didn't you say so?"
> Years of retail will do that to you, and old habits die hard.
> Stephen
>
> --- On Wed, 4/10/13, mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:
>
> From: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
> Subject: more free rims, near San Diego
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 3:08 PM
>
> I also have a couple sets of steel wheels to give away. All have bad
> tires. Stock Vanagon wheels.  Must take at least 2.
>
> Mark
>

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Tom Buese