pic: 179 Is riding on 4.5"

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Those wheels have bearings in them, which leads me to believe that you will be powering the wheel but not the shaft.

How do you expect to do this? The hubs on those look really small, there's really nothing there but spokes. It looks like it would be hard to attach a sprocket.

Other then that, they look ideal!

[Andrew Rudolph]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Those wheels have bearings in them, which leads me to believe that you will be powering the wheel but not the shaft.

How do you expect to do this? The hubs on those look really small, there's really nothing there but spokes. It looks like it would be hard to attach a sprocket.

Other then that, they look ideal!

They already used these wheels back in 05

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by Billfred

I just found this thread again, and I remember how effective they were (grumble grumble ). Out of curiosity since the picture of the wheel doesn't make a means obvious, how were the wheels driven? Live axles? Dead axles? Custom hubs? Fairy dust?

better view
Yes the wheels ran on dead axles. We welded a flange to the hub of the rim and had to clean out the Id (from weld deformation) on a lathe to re-seat the bearings back in there. The flange and sprockets were 3/16" aluminum cut on a waterjet. One thing I liked about these was that you could squeeze the bearings by tightening the wheel shaft, and not cause binding - so the wheel spun freely. The dual sprocket wheels just used spacers and longer bolts off those same flanges. Very heavy duty wheels, I'd like to do that again.