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Do heavy wheels make the ride smoother?

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Old Sep 26, 2012 | 06:15 PM
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Default Do heavy wheels make the ride smoother?

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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 03:46 PM
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i would assume the weight would dampen out vibrations more effectivly on a heavier wheel.



the key word here is "assume"
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Old Sep 28, 2012 | 06:47 AM
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ABSOLUTELY NOT.





Imagine that you have a ping pong ball and a basketball connected to each other via a spring. If you push the ping pong ball by two inches, it's not going to affect the basketball very much. Now if you exchange that ping pong ball for a medicine ball, moving the medicine ball two inches is going to move the basketball a heap.



If that makes sense to you, exchange the basketball for your car body and the other balls are your wheels of varying weights.



I could rattle on and on about this, but for the sake of brevity, google 'unsprung vs sprung weight' and have a read.
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