smart51
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| posted on 10/7/09 at 09:03 PM |
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Carbon Fibre Wheels
Link to Dymag who make carbon fibre wheels. Says a chap who works there, an 18" 10J wheel weighs 6.2kg and a
full carbon bike wheel is 2.5kg vs 7kg or more for an alloy. They're tooling up for wheels for the KTM Xbow and expect those to retail for £900
each
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blakep82
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| posted on 10/7/09 at 09:21 PM |
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mmm carbon wheels 
always thought they'd be cool. could never really work out if they would actually work or not, but clearly they do
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eccsmk
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| posted on 10/7/09 at 09:27 PM |
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mmmm carbon mmmm
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StevieB
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| posted on 10/7/09 at 09:36 PM |
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I do like the 13" magnesium dymags - wonder how much they cost...
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britishtrident
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| posted on 10/7/09 at 10:22 PM |
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A forgotten advantage of aluminium or magnesium alloy wheels is they have a major effect on brake cooling.
The best part half a century back Rootes entered Sunbeam Tigers in the Le Mans 24hr race. All was well until they took them to the Sarthe circuit for
the practice weekend and discovered the brakes (which incidentaly much the same spec as Cortina brakes) were history after a couple of laps of
slowing the heavy Sunbeam at the end of the Mulsanne Straight
Between the practice weekend and race they switched to the original Minilite Magnesium wheels, problem solved.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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blakep82
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| posted on 10/7/09 at 11:30 PM |
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they're not just pure carbon fibre though are they? i thought that would be too brittle on its own. i thought it would work like f1 cars,
carbon/ali honeycomb sandwiches mmmmm sandwiches
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RK
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| posted on 11/7/09 at 02:25 AM |
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Well, I'll take eight of them. I'll take donations from everyone, and be the guinea pig. I'll send my email when people show enough
interest. Ho hum.
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iiyama
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| posted on 11/7/09 at 07:45 AM |
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No they arent just carbon, they are a carbon/kevlar mix. I did contact Dymag last year and talked to them about having a set but then found that they
only do 18's.  No good to me. Magnesium wheel need a lot of maintenance due to the fact that the metal is porus, hence all mag wheels are
painted.
If its broke, fix it. If it aint broke, take it apart and find out how it works!
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 11/7/09 at 09:12 AM |
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MMmmmm! Kerbing!
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omega0684
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| posted on 11/7/09 at 10:26 AM |
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they have been making carbon wheels for a while, look in the gallery section.
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twybrow
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| posted on 11/7/09 at 01:18 PM |
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We have a set from a GT3 race car, in one of our offices. Some of our chaps have been working to look for chepaer manufacuring routes for these
things. Unfortunately, they would be a little large for the kit car!
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