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Originally Posted by Drew Hopman
Typical answer but not always the truth. You can get high speeds with treads if you have the proper gear ratio. I recall team 61 (i think) moving with great speeds in 04 competition and team 180's old tread system to be very powerful. But be sure to do the engineering before the season starts, or you might run out of time like our team did in 03 and had some serious engineering flaws in our system that we had an actual track system.
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ya, i agree, but if its your rookie year treads are too complicated. lots to go wrong, shreading treads, loss of limbs, lots of moving parts(if one fails all the rest can). i mean its just best to keep it simple for your first year, dont go for the gold right away, learn it, then conquer it.