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To: SENTINEL
Spoked wheels most closely resemble "Perimeter Box" construction, which always results in the highest strength to weight ratios, materials being equal.

Yes, strength to weight ratio is excellent, but the tensil strength is carrying most of the load, as the compressed spokes will easily buckle. But it isn't the static weight that is the problem for the spoked wheel, it is handling the drive loads of turning the wheel from the hub, which asks a lot more in tensil strength. Which is why its not uncommon to see a solid wheel in back and a spoked wheel in front.

30 posted on 01/27/2009 12:48:25 PM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: SampleMan
When looking from the side the spokes exit close to tangentially from the hub and then mate perpendicularly to the rims.

It's a good thing harley riders cannot corner quickly, all that weight along with road induced g forces at the edge of those wide tires would create quite a bending moment.

32 posted on 01/27/2009 1:44:58 PM PST by SENTINEL (Bxxxxx Box, Jxxx Box, Cxxxxxxxx Box, (Censored due to loss of 1st Amendment))
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