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Date: 7-11-07 10:47
From: skips_fcr
Subject: Help reinventing the wheel...  
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I've got a friend who has an old wheel in his storage building. It's been there, perhaps thirty years or so. Are there any disadvantages to reinventing this wheel? I've read in other places that if a wheel were say, square, that it might have more rolling resistance than a conventional circular wheel. Is there any truth to this? What could be the advantage of a wheel being say an ovoid shape? TIA
skips_fcr
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Date: 7-11-07 12:55
From: H_Krix in Atlanta, Ga 
Subject: Re: Help reinventing the wheel...
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| jimk wrote: | | If you travel only roads with holes that match the wheel corner points, it gives a lot of traction and ride ain't too bad either. |
Because I'm quite possibly the world's biggest dork, I plotted out what this would look like.... _________________ 
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Date: 7-11-07 01:20
From: ryanOC in Huntington Beach, California 
Subject: Re: Help reinventing the wheel...
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wtf is this thread doing here?
move this to OFF TOPIC
 _________________ 1969 2002 Automatic "Pumpkin"
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Date: 7-11-07 02:04
From: Julian
Subject: Reinterpretation versus reinvention
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Perspective can effect reality. If everything were too obvious, we would not see many new meaningful inventions. Seemingly inane responses to commonplace observations can lead to unexpected results. Occasionally, those results lead to good things. Not every patent leads to great wealth and benefit. Wasn't it T.A. Edison who said 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration?
Is your graph of a carbon composite wheel? Who cares? I like it!
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Date: 7-12-07 09:19
From: boxy02 in SoCal
Subject: Re: Help reinventing the wheel...
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"What could be the advantage of a wheel being say an ovoid shape? TIA
skips_fcr"
Except for the pleasing asthetics and historical correctness of a clown car, I can't think of any. 8^P _________________ Mike
74 2002
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Date: 7-12-07 11:37
From: a54atii in Yellow Springs
Subject: Re: Help reinventing the wheel...
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