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Originally Posted by M. Krass

How often do teams typically change wheels throughout a season? I've never had occasion to replace a wheel, but my teams often don't use the popular traction materials that wear down with time.

We used SBR Roughtop on a 3/4" wide wheel and it held up fine throughout VCU on a primarily defensive 'bot, very little wear although it did leave black lines on the carpet when we got into tough pushing matches. (Or reversed direction quickly) However, I understand the Wedgetop 968 used wears a little quicker, and their wheel width might be smaller, and I know their wheels were smaller diameter, so the wear couldn't be spread out as much.