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Offline NUKE

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« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2005, 10:39:21 PM »
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Billy Lane already made a hubless wheel for a bike.



That's what I was thinking too. I remember that episode of the bike buildoff.

It looks really cool on the bike
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2005, 11:57:45 PM »
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Tracks, I tell you, tracks!

If it was good enough for Guderian, it's good enough for me.

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Wouldn't work too well on my motorbike.
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« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2005, 01:16:08 AM »
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Wouldn't work too well on my motorbike.


Nein! Zey verk fine!



:p

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« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2005, 08:22:17 AM »
really when you get down to brass tax......arent they just reinventing the wheel?:cool:
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« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2005, 08:28:15 AM »
i can't wait to get one for my bike!!! :aok
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« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2005, 08:30:42 AM »
damnit!  now they've put a tax on brass?

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« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2005, 08:54:35 AM »
Getting dirty is a good point

I have a 30 meter (thats about 30 yards for you yanks) driveway that is dirt (live on a semi rural property)

And what happens if you get a flat. Be a bit@h to change I think.


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« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2005, 09:24:56 AM »
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Billy Lane already made a hubless wheel for a bike.



Franco Sbarro used hubless wheels already something like 5 years ago.
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« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2005, 09:29:09 AM »
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really when you get down to brass tax......arent they just reinventing the wheel?:cool:


ROFLMAO  "brass tax" Bwahahhaaa.
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« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2005, 09:30:51 AM »
The tweel I cant really see much on it. First the picture dont show if there is rubber tread on it. I guess there would be for comon sense. Second how wide are they, looks real thin to me. Hate to see the results if you have to turn fast.


Then theres the problem of hitting a possum in it. If you do, does its guts get splattered in the spokes and have to be scrubbed out with a toothbrush?
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« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2005, 09:34:01 AM »
Ok, real performance question.  Wouldn't this hubless wheel offer a performance penalty because of the added friction that the larger bearing-seal would have?

In a 17" hub wheel, the bearings are in the center and there might be something like a 6 inches circumference of material keeping water out and grease in around the bearings.  If I understand this right, that same 17" wheel here would have around 50" of friction inducing bearing seal, and it would have to be heavier duty to deal with the higher relative contact speed with the wheel.
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« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2005, 09:43:34 AM »
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Franco Sbarro used hubless wheels already something like 5 years ago.


Damn I'm good... it's actually Franco Sbarro's idea; hopefully better than a VW Golf with Porsche's 4,5l V-8 or flat-6 w/turbo.
Pretty neat things that guy has built.
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