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Use BOTH at the same time.

Very stylish... :cool:

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why design for maitnence john? we arent going to break anyway right?

and i must again tell they're both awesome designs.
Thanks for the "bling-bling"

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Ahh young grasshopper... good question.

For our viewers at home:
The tread material we're using wears down during continual usage.
We will need to swap out and replace old treads probably once a regional.

Or... because of our design, we may just "rotate the tires".
Can any of you budding young designers figure out why? ;)
-JV

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Because you'll have a 6WD bot with the 4 corners having a bit less wear than the center wheels, since they're lowered? ;)

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I would take the one on the right.

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I also don't think that you will have perfect weight distribution and the tread that has more weight on it will wear down faster than treads with less weight on them.

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the one on the right looks much more professional. the one on the left just looks drilled for lightening. i would say the one on the right, although i'm not a big fan of gold.

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So these are the wheels alekat wus talking bout... lol.... NICE! i like the one on the left more industrial looking... this year we had our first custom wheels
we were going to mill ours out of a rod but due to cost issues.... we made 2 piece rims... we milled the outer rims frome pipe and had the center spokes waterjetted pretty sweet although we can't beat the level of blingosity established by yours

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I would almost say that the outer 4 wheels will require more frequent tread replacement as the center two are less likely to slip. I assume the tread wears more rapidly with slipping side forces.

I actually like the one on the left, they remind me of 258's wheels.

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From a list of "Murphy's Laws of Robotics" I put together from random quotes gathered from the net, this one seems most suiting:

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Hey John!

Where are the SpreeWheels? You gotta get the spinners if you really wanna flash some Bling Bling out there! :)

Nice job by the way... I may have to leave a couple of cinder blocks under your bot in exchange for those after the competitions.

Ellery