Other than asthetic view alloy wheels are more costlier and very difficult to repair when it is damaged compared with ordinary steel wheels.
hey bro, do you like to smoke your stuff with a glove on your hand? how else are you going to hold that hot a$$ pipe once it starts tokin real good.
Go to the hardware store and look at lamp parts. They can be assembled into a decent pipe. You can get brass screens in plumbing, they are used as faucet screens.
It's actually more important to balance motorcycle wheels than four wheelers. The balance weights on alloys tend to be hidden which is why I suspect you think they weren't balanced.
I would assume that manufacturers are using alloy wheels for several reasons: 1. Alloys stay true while a spoked wheel would require truing. 2. alloy whells can use tubeless tires, spoked wheels require a tube. 3. Cosmetics 4. Strength, I assume that an alloy wheel can be engineered to provide more strength and stability than a spoked wheel. The way a spoked wheeled is laced and the number of spokes have a very large effect on the overall ability of the wheel.
1. They are more rigid. In theory this allows bikes to handle better and it also allows the rear wheel to transfer more power without the risk of spokes breaking. 2. They can be made to weigh less than steel. Though in practice many, except the most expensive ones, are actually heavier. 3. It's easier to design them to accept tubeless tires. It is possible to design spoked wheels to accept tubeless tires, but they require complicated rim designs (ex. BMW GS). With alloy wheels it's just easier. 4. They can be styled in any way the designer dreams of. 5. Because they can be molded in 1 piece, without any spokes to lace-up and adjust, they are easier and cheaper to manufacture. 6. They never need adjustment for the life of the bike unlike spoked wheels which sometimes can break or work themselves loose. 7. They are much easier to keep clean.
