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Based on experience.
I put a set of aluminum Marchesini wheels on my CBR600RR and the bike felt ‘punchier’ than before and seemed to accelerate and brake a lot better than the stock wheels with the same tires. Before I sold the bike I put the stock wheels back on with the same tires and the bike felt like a boat, super dull and even acceleration and the braking took more input for the same reaction.
Obviously that’s a much smaller scale but still an example.
Now with my M3 – I don’t have any hard vBox data to back this up but going from the stock 220M wheels with OEM sized tires to 18” HRE R40’s with much wider tires the acceleration ‘feels’ noticeably more responsive and ‘quick’. This is all per the but-o-meter but if feels quicker and next summer I plan to do some vBox runs with the different wheels on the car so that I have some data to back up the experience.
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