Thread: Timing Belt Drive System
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Re: Timing Belt Drive System
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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan
For the record, motorcycles use Timing Belts and Chains, sport bikes generally have chains whereas cruisers usually have belts.
Im not sure where you are going with this. Cruiser bikes have 50 to 150 HP engines, pulling on that belt drive system

the total power available to a FIRST robot, using all the motors, is about 2HP.

If you can drive a motorcycle with a 150HP engine thousands of miles, for months at a time, without needing to touch the drive belt, then I think we are safe with the same belt system on our 2HP robots, running a couple hundred 2 minute matches throughout the season.