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Re: pic: 1218

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Originally Posted by maxlobovsky
Could those really be gigantic tri wheel climbing wheels? Why so big? Seems like teams have a really wide range of what they think is neccesary to climb. Some climb with 4 12.5" skyway (like us, though we didnt intend to climb when we first desgined it), while others have 20" wheels or bigger. Whats that white material on the triwheels? painted wood?
The material is called starboard, it is a light marine grade plastic.

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Originally Posted by sandrag
Do you have a video of this thing in action?
I wish! we didnt even get any practice time.

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That is surely one way to get up the 6 inch step
with our mochup we figured we would be able to climb 12 inchers, god I wish there were 12 inchers in this game
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