> I'm wondering what people use these days to pull out hops from bent
> rims, or have rims become so disposable that nobody bothers?
Rims have gotten much stiffer, and the wheeldish is much more severe than it used to be. This in turn means you have much smaller range in spoketension to play with, to straighten a wheel. With less chance of success, it's usually too much bother
Cyclus offers a range of rim straightening tools: you can download a catalogue from http://www.ra-co.de (5mb pdf)
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands