rims

A set of 60mm-deep wheel rims might add 400g over a 30mm-deep pair, but pay for itself in drag reduction.

The TGV record is about half the speed of sound, which means the wheel rims are bordering on supersonic, so it's not a simple thing to talk about exceeding it.

Why would the wheel rims rotate at twice the speed of the train?

The score wheel rims are labeled with the score digits, rotating like an older odometer (or gasoline pump display) with the current status (points, games remaining).

I don't need to bolt a spoiler on the back, lower the springs, install new rims, and replace the fuel injection chip.

Doctor visits, bent rims, ordering contacts, the inability to drive, etc.

I don't think most people would complain about assets being seized from bonfide drug lords or the guy down the street with fancy rims and gold chains.

Our parking lots are filled with used cars, dents and all, all stock rims, I haven't heard someone talk about a car the entire time I've been here.

I mean sure technically you could just drive on the rims just as technically you can use a laptop with a dead battery at the coffee shop given a little luck and packing your own extension cord.

Teslas have many of the things that normally break on cars: tires, rims, brake pads / rotors / calipers, suspension, wipers, windshield, wheel bearings, AC.

(Briefly, Ultimate load limit is ~ the sum of the tension in the spokes in the loaded zone of the wheel, roughly 4 or so with the rims/spokes I was looking at at the time.

And they ride more harshly, are less compliant, are heavier (look at how much some spend on light-weight rims; tires are even further from the center of the wheel), more expensive, can get bent / dented, and rely on finicky tire pressure monitoring systems.

A Jeep TJ with a lift and big rims, or a large truck with a tiny trailer would be called "short bus" if it looked taller than long.

"the wheel rims were close to supersonic" This doesn't make any sense.

> Take away the makeup, mess up the hair, add 50 pounds, add glasses with unfashionable rims, change to a ratty old T-shirt, and nobody will ask, "are you lost?" This is utterly ridiculous.