I know a pic of these has been posted before, but I have never seen them for sale. This is a must have for CF junkies. LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2457846156

 

WTF does this have to do with the Photo Gallery?

 

Opps wrong forum! Here does this make you feel better?

 

I don't think CF is ideally suited as a high-performance wheel. It has almost no flex, so is far more likely to fracture given the constant jolting that they are subjected to. In order to overcome this, they would have to be bulked up that much more, thus counteracting any weight saving benefits they may impart.

Titanium, aluminum and magnesium are far better suited than CF, since they each have some flex, and will thus rebound to their original shape within certain tolerances of the properties of each metal, and any blends they may use... and whether the wheel is forged... etc. (Aluminum has the least flex of the three metals, if I remember correctly.) But those same tolerances for CF are much lower from what I understand.

I'm open to alternate opinions/evidence on this, or if anybody knows of any professional race teams that use CF wheels, that's proof enough for me.

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I don't think they are CF only, I think they just have a CF overlay

 

I think that's actually worse. you see, the CF will have different flex properties than the underlying metal, making it that much more likely to delaminate from said metal, or fracture. since the CF is that much thinner, it is that much more likely to fracture.

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There comes a point to draw the line somewhere!!!

 

OH I agree, I would never buy them I just thought it was funny.

 

those look like a copy of the racinghart wheels