Small grippy wheels

**blazerbotics** · 12th April 2005, 17:36

as i understand with vulkalon you can have different colours, therefore you have a complete custom tyre. But the blue wheels offer an off the shelf option and i assume are cheaper.

**james...venom** · 12th April 2005, 19:10

Much cheaper!

Vulkalon wheels are expencive in comparison and then you have to make your own hubs. I would recommend them for heavies or feathers whos wheels are completely exposed and therefore will get hit by nasty weapons.

Blue wheels would be lighter and as alan says they are off the shelf items, so quick and easy to get. The plastic for the hub is a thermo plastic, this means it wont crack or shatter under impact. Plus when your wheels get hit for example by a high energy nasty spinner somthing has got to absorb the energy. if you have a steel or ali hub it will bend or worst still could cause damage to your chassis, bearings or axles etc. however if you had a plastic hub, who cares if it gets shreaded as that more likly to give than your bearings and they are cheaper and easyer to replace.

saying this both have been used on the most sucsessfull machines around

Razer, Warhead, Behemoth - Blue Wheels
Storm 2 - Vulkalon

**storm** · 12th April 2005, 19:51

Behemoth - 6 Blue wheels virtually identical in size to Storm II - with 6 Vulkollan wheels. Identical tread area and loading on each tyre...

... I dont think I need to go into which gives the most grip (and I know the drivers of the other robots wouldnt disagree !) particularly Ian Lewis who saw Storm II run for the first time at Denbigh this weekend and admitted he was totally stunned at how much grip Storm II puts down on the arena surface !

If you want grip, at the moment the best option is Vulkollan. As with everything in life though, the best is rarely the cheapest :sad:

Ed
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**james...venom** · 12th April 2005, 21:34

how wide are your wheels ed? the 100mm blue are 30mm wide and the 125s are i think 35/40mm wide. whats your estimated centre of gravity from the floor? just curious

**typhoon_driver** · 12th April 2005, 21:39

lol i can sense a long debate coming on..........

**grant_ploughbot** · 12th April 2005, 21:48

lol. The fact is that The blue wheels and Vulkalon are the same thing. If the Blue wheels dont supply enough surface area to give enough grip for what you need then vulkalon will be better as you can make them as wide as you like, thus making them grippier. There is no argument lol.