Hubless Wheel Feasibility Project

[Oldbiscuit]

Bart, I’m no engineer but I’m questioning your roller layout. You keep talking about side plate flex, wouldn’t you eliminate that if your rollers straddled the rim instead of alternating side to side? It would seem that if you had a solid axle that passed through both plates and rollers with no side play in the rollers, the plates would be stiff. What if you made the plate into an upside down u shape ?

 

[The Renaissance Man]

It would seem that if you had a solid axle that passed through both plates and rollers with no side play in the rollers, the plates would be stiff.

I was questioning the offset rollers from the start. Looks like it puts unnecessary stress on the bolts and plates.