Big bicycle wheel

Marty Wallace said:

Worlds biggest bike wheel.

Anyone know what this place is for?

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=234&y=2187&z=14&w=1

Marty

Dear Marty,

Looks like the Goodyear Proving Grounds for tire testing.

Switch your link from aerial photo to topo map, enlarge, and
note legend and Texas Highway 277 running northeast past it.

Then search this page:

http://www.gosanangelo.com/sast/cda/article_print/1,1983,SAST_4927_1553945_ARTICLE-DETAIL-PRINT,00.html

Carl Fogel

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Marty Wallace said:

Worlds biggest bike wheel.

Anyone know what this place is for?

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=234&y=2187&z=14&

w=1

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Marty

Dear Marty,

Looks like the Goodyear Proving Grounds for tire testing.

Switch your link from aerial photo to topo map, enlarge, and
note legend and Texas Highway 277 running northeast past it.

Then search this page:

http://www.gosanangelo.com/sast/cda/article_print/1,1983,SAST_4927_1553945_ARTICLE-DETAIL-PRINT,00.html

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Carl Fogel

Good work Carl. Mind you, it's a mighty big tyre they're testing. Looks like
a carbon blade fork and Shimano brake that they've got on the test setup.

Marty

Marty Wallace said:

Worlds biggest bike wheel.

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Anyone know what this place is for?

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=234&y=2187&z=14&w=1

It seems to be a test track for cars or trucks as is more visible in
this view:

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=14&x=117&y=1093&z=14&w=2

Jobst Brandt
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Marty Wallace said:

Worlds biggest bike wheel.

This one is more like a real bicycle wheel, and works in the same way:

http://www.arman.kz/images/london%20eye.jpg

Radial spoking is OK in this instance because it's driven at the rim.

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Marty Wallace said:

Worlds biggest bike wheel.

This one is more like a real bicycle wheel, and works in the same way:

http://www.arman.kz/images/london%20eye.jpg

Radial spoking is OK in this instance because it's driven at the rim.

I hope they've used a bit of Loctite on the nipples. Those radial spokes
need something like that to stop them working loose.

Marty

Zog The Undeniable said:

This one is more like a real bicycle wheel, and works in the same way:

http://www.arman.kz/images/london%20eye.jpg

Except that the rim hangs from the spokes, which we all know is just
wrong.
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terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://bike.terrymorse.com/

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Worlds biggest bike wheel.

This is much smaller, but at least it's a real wheel that actually
rotates, and not just a tracing on the ground.

http://www.indulgencecharters.co.uk/ba-london-eye.htm

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Dave...

My guess is particle accellerator 🙂

Mike
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Worlds biggest bike wheel.

Anyone know what this place is for?

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=234&y=2187&z=14&w=1

Marty

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My guess is particle accellerator 🙂

Mike
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Worlds biggest bike wheel.

Anyone know what this place is for?

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=234&y=2187&z=14&w=1

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Marty

Here's the real answer.

Dear Marty,

That is the old track at the Goodyear Tire proving grounds. The big
circle was the road they used to test the tires and the spokes were the
fire lanes that cut through the vegetation. The new track is the figure
8 you see to the left of the circle.

Eve Keim
Visitor Center Coordinator
418 W. Ave B
San Angelo, TX 76903
325-655-4136
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Worlds biggest bike wheel.

Anyone know what this place is for?

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=234&y=2187&z=14&

w=1

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Marty

Here's the real answer.

Dear Marty,

That is the old track at the Goodyear Tire proving grounds. The big
circle was the road they used to test the tires and the spokes were the
fire lanes that cut through the vegetation. The new track is the figure
8 you see to the left of the circle.

Eve Keim
Visitor Center Coordinator
418 W. Ave B
San Angelo, TX 76903
325-655-4136
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These are smaller yet, but are parts of a real bicycle (if a bicycle is a
two-wheeled human powered vehicle).
http://fst.orst.edu/bob_durst/
Kerry

The first ferris wheel built by George Ferris:

http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/ferris.html

Jobst Brandt
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These are smaller yet, but are parts of a real bicycle (if a bicycle is a
two-wheeled human powered vehicle).
http://fst.orst.edu/bob_durst/
Kerry

Technically, Bob Durst's machine is a dicycle- two wheels
side-by-side. I think the Muckle Flugga's wheels are bigger:
http://www.kempf.com/~mrk/fun/smf/flugga.htm , but since there's four,
I don't really know what to call it.

Jeff

Jeff Wills said:

I think the Muckle Flugga's wheels are bigger:
http://www.kempf.com/~mrk/fun/smf/flugga.htm
but since there's four, I don't really know what to call it.

That is a quadricycle.

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to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,
it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877)