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Old 08-30-2018, 01:24 PM   #6 (permalink)
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The wheel spokes are occluded by the brakes. More air is moved by the rotating tire that can fit through an opening in the middle.

If you look at trucks in the rain on the freeway, you see that there is a rolling mass of air moving outward and forward already.

That said, https://www.rimstyle.com/pages/directional.html
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