How much stronger are BST Carbon Fibre Wheels than conventional wheels?
BST Carbon Fibre wheels are comfortably over-engineered for street/road use and have undergone an intensive programme of very stringent testing to verify their design and to confirm their strength and durability. A designated test body in the UK performed the following tests and all tests were conducted on a single wheel. It is important to note that performing a ‘single wheel test’ is not usual when checking metal wheels, since due to metal fatigue behaviour, a single wheel could not withstand all the tests. To allow for this weakness in metal wheels, the test regulations actually specify that using one new wheel for EACH AND EVERY test is permissible during which it is destroyed, whereas in this case a single BST wheel withstood ALL tests and was still completely serviceable afterwards. – Cornering fatigue: 100,000 cycles at 530Nm – Radial fatigue: 500,000 cycles at 5200Nm – Torsional fatigue: 100,000 cycles at 400Nm – Impact test: 337.5kg from 150mm (JWL) The front wheel was designe
