[Thad House]

Originally Posted by BJC

Here is a tip for everyone in this thread who are popping their main breakers or looking to run 6 CIMs and gear fast:

1. Use lower CoF wheels.

2. Build lighter

Put down the Roughtop tread in favor of something like the VersaWheel DT or a Colson wheel. Consider constraining yourself to 100lbs instead of 120lbs. There is a reason that a team like 1625 could gear a single speed 12:64 (~17.3 fps free for those of you keeping track at home) and still T-bone like a monster this year. Lower CoF wheels and lighter weight mean pulling less current when accelerating and at stall.

Cheers, Bryan

We were 100 lbs and VersaWheel DT's at IRI, yet we still popped. If you are geared high enough to not be traction limited, Stall is Stall, so weight and CoF don't make much of a difference, other then change where traction limited is. We popped because we pushed, not during accelerating.