I have a wall full of Darwin attempt certificates. Hope I never actually get an award though!
Wish I had photos of all the "high quality downhill mountain bike" rims I tacoed on on the road when using motors on my test vehicles!
Even the 20" rim can fail if you push it...
Here, the local kids admire my bleeding face after I hit a very small hole in the road on my over-volted hubmotor BMX! I was doing 35MPh or so, and hit a small hole that would have never concerned me before. Well, as you can see, the rim failed and even tore the dropouts off the front forks, which were very expensive downhill racing shocks form a mountain bike.
I can tall a dozen other stories of how flimsy ANY 26" rim has been on any vehicle expected to live in the city traffic fast lane.
On a trike, it is a complete disaster waiting to happen, especially considering side loading, something we have not even started to discuss here.
Any wheel you can pick up, place over your knee and bend in half is not suitable for anything above the normal 25 Mph expectation. And yeah, I can pick up ANY 26" wheel and fold it over my knee laterally with a moderate effort. You ain't doin' that with a motorcycle rim, or even a moped rim!
Brad
Wish I had photos of all the "high quality downhill mountain bike" rims I tacoed on on the road when using motors on my test vehicles!
Even the 20" rim can fail if you push it...
Here, the local kids admire my bleeding face after I hit a very small hole in the road on my over-volted hubmotor BMX! I was doing 35MPh or so, and hit a small hole that would have never concerned me before. Well, as you can see, the rim failed and even tore the dropouts off the front forks, which were very expensive downhill racing shocks form a mountain bike.
I can tall a dozen other stories of how flimsy ANY 26" rim has been on any vehicle expected to live in the city traffic fast lane.
On a trike, it is a complete disaster waiting to happen, especially considering side loading, something we have not even started to discuss here.
Any wheel you can pick up, place over your knee and bend in half is not suitable for anything above the normal 25 Mph expectation. And yeah, I can pick up ANY 26" wheel and fold it over my knee laterally with a moderate effort. You ain't doin' that with a motorcycle rim, or even a moped rim!
Brad