Thread: Smaller Diameter Wheels - What's the advantage?
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Re: Smaller Diameter Wheels - What's the advantage?
If you are really convinced that contact area significantly affects traction with carpet and roughtop/wedgetop belting, then give me a 2" wide 4" diameter wheel over a 1" wide 8" diameter wheel any day.

Speaking of which: I think it's about time that an enterprising team conducts an experiment to prove/disprove the contact area theory once and for all...