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Originally Posted by Kurt V View Post
This has been discussed on the board in the past. Even a forged wheel can only sustain "X" amount of stress of a period of time before failure. Just that no one knows what that period of time is.
That is exactly right. ..well, except for that last part. That "period of time" is directly related (logarithmically) to the load. --it's not really time, but how many millions of cycles (rotations) can the aluminum take.

Notable: Not a bad failure mode. It's not like it shattered like some cast wheels do.
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