Style or function, not Laverda related.

No I haven’t Nick. I know what type of wheel Honda were using. What I and previous contributors were discussing was structural integrity. I’ve no idea what your talking about.
 
nick7 said:
I think youve got your facts wrong, Andy.
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Andy J said:
No I haven’t Nick. I know what type of wheel Honda were using. What I and previous contributors were discussing was structural integrity. I’ve no idea what your talking about.
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You’re both right- the MV spoked offset is not a Marvic but does resemble the design, very one sided ,bunching spokes to resemble a cast wheel.
I test rode a ZZR1100 with radical lightweight ( experimental & untested actually as it turned out!) magnesium wheels from an outfit in California. I did about 10 miles or so, all fine. Customer picked up the bike and had a 120 degree section of rim break off on his ride home, he was poodling along and thought it was a puncture. I had previously been hooning the tits out of it only half an hour earlier. Wheel failure on a motorcycle rarely ends well- why indeed reinvent the wheel?
 
On the subject of wheels, they do seem to have become an art form, intricate lace like patterns etc, one hopes somebody does the maths! It looks like a bloody complicated set of sums? When and why did Laverda change from the thin web to the thicker design..were there failures?
 
nick7 said:
On the subject of wheels, they do seem to have become an art form, intricate lace like patterns etc, one hopes somebody does the maths! It looks like a bloody complicated set of sums? When and why did Laverda change from the thin web to the thicker design..were there failures?
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Yes
Wheels have always been a design feature, look at the Böhmerland.
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