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Re: Drop-center drivetrains: Why?

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
An interesting idea inspired by this thread would be to (gasp!) raise the center wheel on the fly in order to reduce turnability similar to the nonadrive concept.

Hmm.
For what "benefit"?

Before people start going off and design new for the sake of new, they should evaluate what a well designed full treaded drop center 6wd can do. There is a reason 60 started doing it, 254/968 always does, and we always love to copy it.