Cody Bead Lock Tests 2 July 2005

Cody Waggoner Owner/Driver

Cougar Buttes, CA - Past and future Rock Crawling Championship locations.

Participants: Cody Waggoner, Jenna Kane, Harry Lewellyn

Close-ups of Jenna's experience.

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No bead locks??

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Note extreme wheel articulation.

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Visualize RF outside and LF inside tire bead stress through his climb.

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RF sidewall, bead lock and rim stress.

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Note the RF vertical wall.  Did he spin his tires?

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Same wall.  Traction was perfect to the point of leaving virtually no tracks.

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Next 8 pictures, sidewall stress.

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6 to 8 PSI.

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~ 1.5 to 2.0 PSI.  Tire bead same at both pressures.

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Note inner sidewall bulge.

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Note LF tire sidewall stress.

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Maneuver, articulate, stick and move.  Note RR.

 

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LF bead stress.

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LR bead stress.

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Know this one?  Cody stuck it.  Cody, "Wow!"

 

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Bead lock may be preventing complete rim to rock rubber pinch.

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No tracks mean perfect traction.

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Sharp rock corner stresses everything.

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Inside sidewall equally stressed. 

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Cody Waggoner and Harry Lewellyn

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