"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
05/25/2016 at 12:03 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
05/25/2016 at 12:03 • Filed to: None | 0
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Could you fit massive brake rotors to a car without calipers/pads, then stretch bicycle tires around them, and drive like that? Obviously not legally, but wouldn’t it work? It’s times like this I really wish I had a large disposable income and a private abandoned airstrip.
Tekamul
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:08 |
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The rigid/sharp edges of the rotor would quickly cut through any tire you want to put on there.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Tekamul
05/25/2016 at 12:09 |
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That’s nothing a sander can’t fix.
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Rainbow
> Tekamul
05/25/2016 at 12:10 |
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Well then I just won’t use a tire and I can keep the brakes somewhat functional.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:10 |
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No. Unless you mean to include the attachment of a rim with relief to the outside edge. Bicycle tires have bead wires too. Also, bike tires jump in common sizes from 12" to 18" - it’s easy enough to find a car with slightly under 12" rotors, but slightly under 18", less so. Also also, the required pressure to lift the car would be beyond the yield limit of the tire.
Party-vi
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:11 |
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MonkeePuzzle
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:11 |
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nope. the caliper goes over the disc, and therefore the tyre would hit the caliper
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Rainbow
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/25/2016 at 12:14 |
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I wouldn’t fill the tires. They’d just be stretched over the discs and left like that.
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Rainbow
> MonkeePuzzle
05/25/2016 at 12:16 |
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Which is why I’d remove the calipers. I suppose if I was really dedicated to keeping it as safe as possible, I’d just find a way to attach the discs alongside functional drum brakes.
Berang
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:17 |
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If you did that you would just have a wheel. That’s a wheel you’re thinking of.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:17 |
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Rainbow
> Berang
05/25/2016 at 12:18 |
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But I invented it so I’ll call it a superwheel. It’s better than a wheel.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:19 |
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Still - ain’t gonna work. The tire she no stretch. The bead wire and sidewall of the tire are a fixed size, and the only way to get that around a rotor is to cut a section from the tire and glue it back together. There is no “stretch over”. The only way that you can even install the tire on a bike rim is that the relief channel is deep enough for the bead wire to go deeper on one side than the bead depth, allowing the other side the slack to slip over. This is how tires work.
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MonkeePuzzle
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:19 |
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so you just want to use a giant steel wheel with tiny rubber instead of a hollow alloy wheel wiht big rubber? you would still need secondary solution for braking. i.e. standard brakes alongside your giant brakes
TheHondaBro
> MonkeePuzzle
05/25/2016 at 12:23 |
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Jesus.
Slant6
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:23 |
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When I get out of work/ class I’ll sketch an idea I had based off this.
BigBlock440
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:31 |
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You could, but there’s no point to doing so. Though I’ve done it and put them on a friend’s ATV when he was away as a joke. It was funny.
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Berang
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:32 |
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These men beg to differ.
functionoverfashion
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:44 |
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In a word, “briefly.” Yes, it would work, briefly.
You’d basically have the impala/caprice you posted recently.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:49 |
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I’ll tell you what’s almost as idiotic, but sort of vaguely practical. Take any car that uses a 5/4.5 or 4/4 lug pattern and mount up some 12" trailer wheels, backwards to clear the brakes. Yes, they do make tiny bias-ply trailer wheels on a 5/4.5 and 4/4 pattern.
The Snowman
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 12:57 |
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Use a v pull brake and you now have a solid bike wheel.
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 23:01 |
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Briefly. They would never stand up to impacts or lateral load.
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Rainbow
> AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/25/2016 at 23:17 |
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Fine. Well... Your mom!
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AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Rainbow
05/25/2016 at 23:28 |
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Touché. I concede. You win the internet.