mav

Has anyone here said anything opposite? I don't understand what exactly you're trying to argue here.

ccarnel

sorry im getting this thread and it's duplicate in another forum here on this board mixed up. In the other thread people are talking as if Volk, Mugen and other wheel brands are far superior by the criteria that we have one isolated incident of this wheel breaking

I never said anything about knowing everything... where the hell did that come from. All i stated was something that was pretty damn obvious... So............... your point is......


https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.ph...&f=12&t=297065

JSR_AP2

All wheels do break, and I've seen virtually every major brand damaged from racing (usually due to contact with someone or something). The issue is not that wheels break, but the situation they break in and the way they break (the actual failure mode). The Kinesis wheel pictured that broke looks more like a mfr'ing issue (bad batch maybe?...since Kinesis, Fikse, HRE, and Forgeline all contract much of the mfr'ing process out, they do get bad batches from suppliers of metals, rim hoops, finishing, etc.). Perhaps they were poorly maintained, or were in a racing incident and instead of being inspected and/or replaced, they continued to use it. But w/o knowledge of the scenario that the breakage occured, it's difficult to know the cause (mfr or racing). But the failure mode is strange...something I've never seen except on a couple of rare occasions when a wheel has a design and/or mfr'ing flaw.

The Hoth

Wow, so under racing condition, wheels are supposed to have major failure like that sooner or later?

How come, over many years of watching sport car, F1, IRL, Indy,....etc., I have never seen wheel failure like that?

JSR_AP2

Major race teams replace wheels VERY often. And they do inspections after every event. After an incident of virtually any kind where the wheel was in the vicinity of the damage and could have suffered damage, the wheels are replaced.