[EricH]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Not sure I agree Eric, If say your bumpers were mounted to a 28x38 frame, and your wheels are whats doing the moving.

I'm envisioning some sort of collapsible robot that can decollapse in either direction

Let's say that you do that. In starting orientation, your bumpers are fine. You flip over trying a bump, and your bumpers are now out of the zone. Your wheels land on the floor, and you promptly begin lowering them. What's the crowd (and the ref, and the opposing drivers) going to see? They aren't going to see wheels lowering, they're going to see bumpers raising. Then they see you driving around like nothing happened. And it happens again...and again...and again.

What are you going to say, if you think this is intentional and a design feature?

<S04>, <R11>, <R07-A>...

I see where you're coming from, but to an outside observer, this is vertical articulation of the frame perimeter, not vertical articulation of the wheels. It's an idea, but I think you'd best Q&A it.