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What Should Be Known About Wire Wheels

  • jeudi 3 mars 2016
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  • By Anna Collins


    A wheel that has the connection between hubs and rims done by wires is referred to as a wire wheel. Wire-spoked, suspension, and tension-spoked wheel are the other names that are used to refer to it. Suspension wheel and vehicle suspension should not be confused because they are not the same thing. Wire wheels work by maintaining the form of the rims as they support the load. They are similar to tensioned flexible wires in the mechanism through which they work.

    The invention of these products occurred in 1808 and was done by an aeronautical engineer by the name George Cayley. Even though Cayley proposed the product, its functioning, and its production, he never applied for a patent. A patent was later applied and issued to a Theodore Jones in London in October of the year 1826. The use of the product on bicycles was first patented by a French by the name of Eugene Meyer in the year 1969.

    These products were first successfully used on a commercial scale on bicycles. Their use began shortly after the invention of bicycles and adoption of rubber tires. Its introduction came with a lot of improvements that lacked before. First, there was a lot of comfort and more weight could be supported.

    The older wooden wheel lacked elasticity and other properties, making it insufficient in various ways. Lack of elasticity made absorption of road variations impossible. Millions of tension-spoked wheel products were produced annually by early bicycle producers. They mostly used crossed-spoke patterns where crossings of adjacent spokes dependent on the number of spokes available. However, other patterns such as no-cross, two-cross, and one-cross were also in wide use.

    The aforementioned patterns produce more stability and strength. Their usage has persisted for more than one century now. On the contrary, irregular patterns consist little structural merit and have mostly been considered to be art forms. Professional racing and Olympic games saw the first cast wheels containing 5-6 rigid spokes get introduced in the 80s. The introduction was for them to be used on specialized applications including time trials. Other applications remain widely performed by wire-spoked products.

    The products are usually built from a number of materials, but stainless steel is the major material. Stainless steel remains in wide use because of its strength and elasticity. The strength gives it the ability to bear bigger loads without undergoing deformation. More recently, plastic has started to be used in many products, especially those made by the Chinese.

    A product varies in how many wires in can contain. The number can be very small or very large. The main determinant of the number of wires is use. Vehicles for instance would be expected to have products with more wires than in bicycles and motorcycles. Increasing the number of wheels often increase strength.

    Beauty is one of the properties of these products. They are widely used on motorcycle because of their retro appearance. Today, the world has many producers who sell their products at different costs.




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