www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C10295/
blog.cardomain.com/blog/2006/10/clear_wheels.html
And if you still have money to burn--
The video clip referred to is four and a half minutes long and totally repetative.
www.ifilm.com/video/2781478
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I'm speechless. Or not. Otherwise I wouldn't have said that. Whatever.....
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What do you clean them with? Windowlene perhaps?
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Expect to see these $2000 per wheel on a cheap Citroen Saxo nearby then? What a waste of money.
Some will say most alloys a waste (they typically weigh more than steel rims on your average as opposed to exotic car) but this is plain dumb.
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They're hideous but moreso from the sheer low 'profility' (invented word) of the fitted tyres.
I must admit to having thought about 'plastic' wheels before, but could not really think of any advantages, only some disadvantages of using some sort of synthetic polymer of sufficient strength.
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Lexan scuffs really easily doesnt it? They will look a dogs dinner in a few months..
At first glance they reminded me of the hubless wheels I saw on a Sbarro concept car sometime in the mid 80's. Which as I understand it are about as impractical as these plastic ones!..
www.osmoswheel.com/pages/galerie_photo.asp?lang=en#
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I hope that these are only ever used as display models.
Give the plastic, regardless of what it is, a few thermal cycles from some serious braking and it will embrittle, warp, crack and craze.
Loooooooooooooooooooonatics
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And it would be a pain to clean all the brake dust which would stick to the inside face of the wheel. Don't really fancy taking the wheels off each time they need a clean!
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The pushbike looks stunning www.osmos-wheel.com/pages/application_cycles.asp
Not much clearance under the frame for mounting kerbs on the one with the blue background.
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L\'escargot.
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I had a Citroen SM a LoooooooNG time ago - fibreglass wheels were on the option list, i think there was a claimed weight advantage and they were used on Citroen rally cars at the time. Haven't seen or heard of them since so I guess they were not an unqualified success
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The snag with fireglass and nowadays carbon fibre wheels is that they have no give and at extreme loads will shatter rather than bend.
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