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Ev Archive for January 1999
1731 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:44:09 2001

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Re: New Idea for EV Bike



John Bryan wrote:
drive
> roller. The roller is a custom fit to an aggressively treaded tire, 90 deg.
> features in the tread like knobs and robust ridges would be best. The roller
> would deeply engage the tire when power is applied, but would never generate
> any actual 'tension' with the tire.

Hey, that sounds a lot like those self-propelled lawn-mowers where drive
sprockets engage into the back wheels which have treads cut kind of like
sprockets themselves...

Is that the *basic* idea?

Tim