Balancing a Pneumatic wheel

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Justin Shelley

I think if the weights will work on sport bikes that they will be fine on a robot wheel a 2006 yzf r6 has a top engine rpm of around 21,000RPM. The sixth gear reduction ratio is 1.074. Dividing 21,000RPM/1.074 will produce the RPM of the rear wheel. This comes out to be 19,553RPM. I don't think the shooter wheel is hitting that speed lol Now i realize you may do the math and realize nobody ever drives that fast

That's well over 1200 miles per hour. I don't think the wheel itself would survive, much less stick-on weights.

but when the bike is doing 250MPH, people do drive that fast on the track, the rear wheel is spinning at abut 3,703RPM which is faster then any shooter wheel is spinning. So Andrew you are just fine using wheel weights

Based on reports I've seen here, some frisbee shooters are spinning their wheels at 6000 RPM or higher. 5000 RPM seems common. Whether or not you use wheel weights, if you're running a wheel at several thousand RPM, you'd better have an effective containment system to protect the outside world in case something spontaneously disassembles itself.