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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris
I think they're designed to be used around a racetrack for a few miles at a time and get regularly inspected, for this sort of use "as light as possible" is exactly the right design to have.
Look at aerospace, components are designed with definite fatigue life, again as light as possible. Abuse those design criteria and stuff starts to break.
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I have them on my Streetfighter, Dymags from 1993 ish, although they're apparantly the road version and not the full race version, I don't trust them as far as I could throw the damn things. I have a set of proper OE wheels ready to fit if I ever find something wrong, I might just pre-empt any failure and swap them anyway.
When Robert Dunlop's wheel exploded at the TT in 1994, it was a full race wheel and not a road one. Seems there was a massive grey area in whether a road race counted as road use.
As said before, a decent set of tyres will make a far bigger difference than a lighter wheel.