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Re: Wheel Types: What's best, and why?

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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence View Post
The goal trying to be achieved isn't more torque, it's more contact time.
The goal is neither or those. The goal is faster exit speed of the bee.

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A slower wheel will contact the frisbee for longer, and in the end will accelerate the frisbee more.
The higher the acceleration if the bee, the less time it spends in contact with the wheel, and the faster the exit speed will be.

If the exit speed of the bee is slower, chances are it had more contact time, but it spent that time slipping, not accelerating.