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View Poll Results: Your Teams Wheels
Slick 0 0%
Sticky 19 32.76%
Mechanums 18 31.03%
Other-If you choose this please comment and ellaborate. 21 36.21%
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Choose The Best Wheels

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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

Where is the "all of the above" option?
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

2791's looking at the 2008 KoP wheels with varying combinations of roughtop tread riveted on it. Performance Wheels would be great, but they cost a lot.
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

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Where is the "all of the above" option?
Haha, I'd like to see that kind of drivetrain!

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You forgot omni-directional wheels...
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

We will be using 3 different wheels. "Stick", Omni, and "Slick" with roughtop treading.
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

We are using 4" plaction wheels this year. The shear amount of traction, and the fact that we had a good experience with them during the off season made us choose them.
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

6" plactions with wedgetop or blue nitrile roughtop depending on how final testing goes.
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

We use a 8.5"x2" Bead-LOK wheels skyway wheels sells, we then grind them down to about 6-6.5"x2". They have tons of grip, and we have yet lost one due to competition, we had a nasty hub crack in 2006 but kept going on the hub. they sell 5 different sizes ( 8.5x2, 9x2, 9x3, 10x3 and 10.5x3) also your choice of hub type. We have been using these tires since 2002 and have been really happy with them.


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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

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Haha, I'd like to see that kind of drivetrain!
We're not going to any Canadian competitions this year. Sorry.
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Tank tracks. Oorah.
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What, no spiderlegs?
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Re: Choose The Best Wheels

Team 178 is using mecanum wheels from AndyMark, with the BaneBots P80 12:1 gearboxes.

Click this link to see a video of our week 1 prototype.

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