12-02-2005, 07:31 PM
Can you make a vehicle so light that it no longer has enough weight to create a sufficient enough tire patch? I'd have to think so, but then it raises the question of when does weight become disadvantageous?
There has got to be some formula based on friction, vehicle mass, power, weight distribution, drivetrain layout, etc, to give you an ideal weight per vehicle, but has anyone ever made one?
I know, pretty useless for us because in any real vehicle lighter is always better,, but think space-age materials and vehicles that have the possibility to weigh next to nothing.
I dunno, just something I've been pondering for a while
There has got to be some formula based on friction, vehicle mass, power, weight distribution, drivetrain layout, etc, to give you an ideal weight per vehicle, but has anyone ever made one?
I know, pretty useless for us because in any real vehicle lighter is always better,, but think space-age materials and vehicles that have the possibility to weigh next to nothing.
I dunno, just something I've been pondering for a while
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2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
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4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.