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Completely guessing, but I wonder if they designed the "spoke" baffles to pinch in under the load and thus expel any stones that might fit between them, like a
by mabub24 5y ago
Completely guessing, but I wonder if they designed the "spoke" baffles to pinch in under the load and thus expel any stones that might fit between them, like a pebble squeezed between your two fingers and shooting out.
- rbanffy 5y agoA pebble shooting out of the upper side of a tire of a car at 250 km/h is probably as bad as a bullet. Probably worse.
- kadoban 5y agoSo about the same as a pebble that gets stuck in treads or kicked up by same? Definitely better than a bullet though just by nature of lower speed, what it's made of and because of its poor aerodynamics.
- rbanffy 5y agoThese spokes seem to be able to fit larger pebbles that may be launched from the side of the wheel and escape the wheel well.