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Taxi Quinn
28-01-2010, 09:36
Which Is Your Team Using?
Alan Anderson
28-01-2010, 11:36
Where is the "all of the above" option?
dmlawrence
28-01-2010, 11:38
Tank treads
Chris is me
28-01-2010, 11:50
2791's looking at the 2008 KoP wheels with varying combinations of roughtop tread riveted on it. Performance Wheels would be great, but they cost a lot.
basicxman
28-01-2010, 13:11
Where is the "all of the above" option?

Haha, I'd like to see that kind of drivetrain!

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You forgot omni-directional wheels...
Alex Cormier
28-01-2010, 13:19
We will be using 3 different wheels. "Stick", Omni, and "Slick" with roughtop treading.
big1boom
28-01-2010, 14:48
We are using 4" plaction wheels this year. The shear amount of traction, and the fact that we had a good experience with them during the off season made us choose them.
Akash Rastogi
28-01-2010, 14:55
6" plactions with wedgetop or blue nitrile roughtop depending on how final testing goes.
Valkyries_698
28-01-2010, 15:26
We use a 8.5"x2" Bead-LOK wheels skyway wheels sells, we then grind them down to about 6-6.5"x2". They have tons of grip, and we have yet lost one due to competition, we had a nasty hub crack in 2006 but kept going on the hub. they sell 5 different sizes ( 8.5x2, 9x2, 9x3, 10x3 and 10.5x3) also your choice of hub type. We have been using these tires since 2002 and have been really happy with them.


http://www.skywaywheels.com/usfirst.htm < FIRST discount
http://www.skywaywheels.com/products_002.htm
Alan Anderson
28-01-2010, 16:02
Where is the "all of the above" option?

Haha, I'd like to see that kind of drivetrain!

We're not going to any Canadian competitions this year. Sorry.
CraigHickman
28-01-2010, 16:11
Tank tracks. Oorah.
viperred396
28-01-2010, 16:34
Tank tracks. Oorah.

same here!
Taylor
28-01-2010, 17:10
What, no spiderlegs?
baruffir
28-01-2010, 18:22
Team 178 is using mecanum wheels from AndyMark, with the BaneBots P80 12:1 gearboxes.

Click this link to see a video of our week 1 prototype.

http://www.farmingtonrobotics.org/Pages/About%20Us/Videos.htm
PAR_WIG1350
29-01-2010, 00:21
We're levitating our robot by building it in the shape of a pyramid ;)
dtengineering
29-01-2010, 01:00
4x 1.5"x6" IFI (now "VEXPro") wheels with roughtop tread, plus 4x 6" AM kitbot wheels, probably the 2008's on our game robot and 2007's on our practice bot.

Jason