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But there's rolling "sprung" vs. static "unsprung" weight (the examples you listed). You care a lot more about rolling weight as that affects the acceleration c
by localhost 5y ago
But there's rolling "sprung" vs. static "unsprung" weight (the examples you listed). You care a lot more about rolling weight as that affects the acceleration characteristics of the wheel - that's really important at the limits.
- oriolid 5y agoIf you bother to do the math, but simplify things so that all the mass of wheels is at the contact patch, you'll end up that rotating mass has twice the kinetic energy and takes 2x effort to accelerate and decelerate. Now if you check how large fraction of the mass of rider and bike the wheels are and how fast bikes accelerate, it's kind of insignificant.