Originally Posted by
furballi
Let's see, bike and rider with a combined weigh of 250 lbs impacting a large pot hole at 30 mph? I doubt that a high quality custom wheel can survive this collision.
Yeah, seriously. I was going to let this slide, but that aspect of Mr. Eckhardt's original assertion is a bit ridiculous. He's correct in some respects about how the physics of spoke tension affect a wheel, but to suggest that a big man on bad wheels has nothing to fear from slamming into a pothole at top speed is pretty laughable.