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Originally Posted by themccannman
As T^2 already mentioned our wheels did not wear at all, instead the plastic form the frisbees actually got melted/caked onto the wheel. You'll probably run out of frisbees before you wear down these wheels. At their off-the-shelf diameter I would not recommend running them at more than ~8,500rpm for more than ~10 seconds as they will literally tear themselves apart as previously mentioned.
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I think this is largely a function of how concentric the hub is. We went a little overbaord on our hubs and they are pretty darn concentric. I saw a few teams running wheels that had the slightest amount of runout and that really was noticeable audibly.