saw this link on the supraforum. This wheels are just insane!

http://www.german-wheels.com/produkt...x/index.en.php

 

Wow I have never seen something endure so much. Maybe we need to have our cars made out of the same metal.

 

that wouldnt be so good... Cars are made to crumble. If they were made of soemthing like this we would get hurt 10x's as bad if there was an accident. The cars today are made to absorb the impact. With something that could withstand that kind of abuse it would force all the impact to our bodies instead of the cheap metal that absorbs it first.

 

just to be a bit skeptical, though the vids are impressive.....you notice how they never show a close-up of the wheel after bashing it around, and they never show the wheel continuously after smashing it while they put it on the truing machine?

If you look closely where he's hitting the curb, the rim looks all torn up to me

while they're hitting it....nice lumber, that breaks so easily. Use a 2-by-4! Nice pipe, that bends so easily. Get a steel plumbing pipe and I'll be more impressed.

Not to say the wheels aren't strong as hell - the design of the wheel, from an engineering point of view, is very strong iindeed. But there is some trickiness going on in the videos as well - no matter what they're made of they're not indestructible. Whatever alloy "radinox" is (probably a mix of steel and titanium), it can be broken. I had a titanium-frame mountain bike that got several dents and scrapes in it.

One thing of note: does the site say anything about the weight? A 40-lb wheel made of steel is certainly going to be a hellofalot stronger than a 15-lb aluminum wheel.

All that said, still a pretty cool concept, and they do look damn strong!

 

Yeah it proves that they're decently strong, but not necessarily ridiculous. I was wondering about the weight from the get-go... but I think they should get a $50 heap of junk, put some wheels (no tires or, 35 series or something) on it and run it straight into a curb at 35mph.

 

Even if the tests could be worse, they are still better than wheelmax rims