Hi-Tech wheels

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Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

Don't speak too loudly, you may get what you wish for! (The wheels, although the bunny suit is
easily arranged too: performancebike.comcboProfile.cfmOpen ↗)

Matt O.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:58:16 GMT, [email hidden]

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Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

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Why, that's not a bicycle! It's a hexacycle! It's obviously martian, and it's spiral spokes have
exerted their mind control on you to make you THINK it's a bike. You should switch to Opera, which
has the option to turn off both Javascript and Mind Control Script.

It's coming right for us! Shoot it!

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Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

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Rick Onanian

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.govmer2 110702.jpgOpen ↗

Neat wheels. But I would be afraid to ask the price. Anything with NASA on it is going to cost
big bucks. I would guess you take the most expensive wheels ever and then add a couple of zeros
on the end.
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Alex

Um... so now I know where my tax dollars go? Did you check the size of that photo? Over 3
megabytes!!! I don't feel so bad about the size of some of the pages on my own site now.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles chainreactionbicycles.comchainreactionbicycles.comOpen ↗

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Quoted message said:

Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.govmer2 110702.jpgOpen ↗

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

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Just the same I need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those
spiral spokes!

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At least they're not anodized.

:^)

Dave dvt at psu dot edu

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Look at those spiral spokes!

Lots more about the wheels at:

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I guess we'll all have a good laugh when the anodized tread fins break off.

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Quoted message said:

Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

Looks like what happens if you use a fully radial wheel on the back of a tandem ;-)

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Quoted message said:

Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.govmer2 110702.jpgOpen ↗

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

Dear Jobst,

Here's the same picture, greatly reduced, with explanations and close-ups of the odd spiral wheels:

solarsystem.nasa.govdisplay.cfmOpen ↗

Carl Fogel

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Um... so now I know where my tax dollars go? Did you check the size of that photo? Over 3
megabytes!!! I don't feel so bad about the size of some of the pages on my own site now.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles chainreactionbicycles.comchainreactionbicycles.comOpen ↗

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Quoted message said:

Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.govmer2 110702.jpgOpen ↗

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

Dear Mike and Jobst,

Here's the same picture, greatly reduced, with explanations and close-ups of the odd spiral wheels:

solarsystem.nasa.govdisplay.cfmOpen ↗

Carl Fogel

Dave Salovesh said:

I guess we'll all have a good laugh when the anodized tread fins break off.

They're only planning for a lifespan of 100 meters, so they're probably not too worried about
fatigue life. It's certainly Type I anodizing, any way.
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terry morse Palo Alto, CA terrymorse.combikeOpen ↗

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:28:14 GMT, Dave Salovesh <[email hidden]>

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In <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] opined:

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Look at those spiral spokes!

Lots more about the wheels at:

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.govwheels01.htmlOpen ↗

I guess we'll all have a good laugh when the anodized tread fins break off.

I was a little surprised to read there that only two engineers at NASA are cognizant. Wonder how the
rest got their degrees?

:-)

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Originally posted by Jobst Brandt
Check it out.

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Don't try (down loading) this at home! (With a dial-up modem that is). Can you say Slooow!!!

I'm not an engineer, but that wheel design looks incredibly ill-thought out to me if I understood
the description correctly. Thin machined "spokes" that are only on one end of a wide wheel, loaded
with hundreds of pounds? Those things might not make it around the block before breaking! Those
"spokes" are going to have to control not only vertical loads but also oblique loads twisting them
out of plane. It's like a bicycle wheel with only one set of spokes- but worse!

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Check it out. Bunny suits and face masks in an industrial garage. I'm impressed. Just the same I
need wheels of that design. It beats Soft-ride or FS any day. Look at those spiral spokes!

Impressive! nevertheless i prefer wheels made by these two guys 🙂
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almost all modern car wheels and a lot of modern motorcycle rear wheels use a similar offset design.
yes, there is twisting out of plane, but it's a matter of how bad it is relative to load and the
other benefits this design affords.

in practice, it's really not a problem.

jb

Tim McNamara said:

I'm not an engineer, but that wheel design looks incredibly ill-thought out to me if I understood
the description correctly. Thin machined "spokes" that are only on one end of a wide wheel, loaded
with hundreds of pounds? Those things might not make it around the block before breaking! Those
"spokes" are going to have to control not only vertical loads but also oblique loads twisting them
out of plane. It's like a bicycle wheel with only one set of spokes- but worse!