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Re: Tread Wear
2006
We used 4 IFI 1x4 wheels and 2 IFI 1.5x4 wheels. We blew one tread off a wheel at the Philly regional during elims. We changed tread after our second regional at the Championships even through we didn't really need to.
2007
We used our own custom 1.75"x4" wheels with the same tread and there was very little wear on them after two regionals, the Championship (20 matches!), BattleCry, and IRI.
My take away from this was that we had a tendency to wear our tread far more on the lexan and diamond plate surfaces from last year than this year's carpet only surface. I believe the worst field element culprit for tread wear was the 2003 grated ramp. I would say fequency of tread change depends more on the field surface than anything else based on my observations going back to 2003 when we used pnuematic tires.
Pete
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2011 Championship Finalists/Archimedes Division Championships w/ 2016 & 781
2010 Championship Winners/Newton Division Champions
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2009 Newton Division Champions w/ 1507 & 121
2008 Archimedes Division Champions w/ 1124 & 1024
2007 Championship Winners/Newton Division Champions w/190, 987 & 177 The Wall of Maroon
2006 Galileo Division Champions w/ 1126 & 201
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