Effects of Bicycle Tire Pressure on Performance
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Andrew Dressel
Location
Union Wisconsin Room
Start Date
27-4-2018 1:00 PM
Description
The goal of this research is to determine how tire inflation pressure effects the performance characteristics of a mountain bike tire. Thoughts on inflation pressures vary throughout the bike community and the data collected from this research will give riders of all skill levels a solid guideline. The data will be collected on a treadmill like device where the tire will be fixed in place but, allowed to spin as a normal tire would. The angle of the treadmill, slip angle, will be varied about the vertical axis to ±5°. This change in slip angle will produce a lateral force as well as a torque that will be measured. This will be the first part of the experiment. The second part of the experiment will be to vary the camber angle of the tire and measure the resulting lateral force and the torque created. The raw data collected during the full run will be transferred into MATLAB to create graphs, as well as a long of the run. After the testing is complete, we hope to see a trend in the tire inflation pressures and the performance of the tire
Effects of Bicycle Tire Pressure on Performance
Union Wisconsin Room
The goal of this research is to determine how tire inflation pressure effects the performance characteristics of a mountain bike tire. Thoughts on inflation pressures vary throughout the bike community and the data collected from this research will give riders of all skill levels a solid guideline. The data will be collected on a treadmill like device where the tire will be fixed in place but, allowed to spin as a normal tire would. The angle of the treadmill, slip angle, will be varied about the vertical axis to ±5°. This change in slip angle will produce a lateral force as well as a torque that will be measured. This will be the first part of the experiment. The second part of the experiment will be to vary the camber angle of the tire and measure the resulting lateral force and the torque created. The raw data collected during the full run will be transferred into MATLAB to create graphs, as well as a long of the run. After the testing is complete, we hope to see a trend in the tire inflation pressures and the performance of the tire
