[Pat Fairbank]

In previous years and the beginning of 2003, we took the 6" skyway wheels, lathed off all the rubber, and epoxyed a strip of some soft rubber tread stuff to the wheel. It gave us great traction. However, this year, when we tried the same thing, we found that our tread was all but gone after one regional, shredded away by the ramp. So we switched to these other, wider, 6" wheels made from smooth neoprene which weighed 2 lbs each (!!!) but gave us awesome traction, even on the HDPE.