I just ran across this again while this forum was open in another window, so it cross pollinated.
Some time ago I played with the idea of putting classic spoke wheels on my motorcycle to replace the mechanically superior cast wheels.
Yes, this was for the look of spoke wheels.
It was only when my mate rode past the window with his spoke wheels that I realised something, the mental picture I had of spoke wheels did not come from my eyes, it came from my eyes looking at pictures taken with a camera shutter, the 15th to 25th of a second shutter speed of the human eye makes things look a lot different to 1/500th on a camera.
Those lovely spoke wheels are a blur, just like the cast one, except when you are parked, and if you make your wheel selection purely on how the bike looks when parked then you'd better move to california and change your name to arlen ness and give up all hope of actually riding a bike, and stick to building art.
I mention it here because I have been riding all my life, but I still, automatically, took something that was utterly false and unrealistic as being the gospel truth about how things were, and never questioned it.
