Empirical determination of the motion resistance of pneumatic bicycle wheels for on and off-road performance

• Main Authors: Akande, Fatai Bukola, Ahmad, Desa, Othman, Jamarei, Sulaiman, Shamsuddin, Fashina, Adepoju B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Journals 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23034/1/23034.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23034/; http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR/article-abstract/F59155329636
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Four pneumatic bicycle wheels of diameters 405 mm (16'), 510 mm (20'), 610 mm (24') and 660 mm (26') were tested on three different test surfaces (paved surface, grass field and tilled (sandy-clay loam) soil at selected tyre inflation pressures of 276 kPa (40 psi), 337.5 kPa (50...