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Two words:
Camber steer
All the wheel forces are fine, they're close enough to regular bicycle loads and bicycle wheels are usually more than capable of tolerating substantial out of plane loadings, both in the main wheel structure and at the axles/bearings. As pictured, it does seem to be lacking spoke bracing angle on the drive side of both wheels, but that's a surmountable problem. As a proof of concept, it's an interesting demonstration of just how far one can deviate from correct design while still ending up with something ridable, in much the same way as some of Olli Erkkila's builds are, but that's more down to the room for error in the standard bicycle and the standard cyclist than it is evidence that such novel designs are really worth pursuing. We've all ridden old wrecks with the wheels out of line and non-circular and the headset either as loose as a goose or indexed, so it's no surprise that an ordinary rider can maintain control on a well constructed but wrongly designed bicycle.