[ihc] Dual wheel bearings

["Jim Grammer" <jgrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:10:35 -0600
>From: bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)
>Subject: RE: [OLDIHC:] Re: [ihc] wheels again, dual>single conversions?

>Ed--

>The wheel bearings are in the SAME location relative to the tire's contact
>patch--and the track is the same-- the only differences are the lateral
>location of the  wheel mounting flange on the hub and the backset of the
>wheel.

>There is no change at all in the bearing loading or the steering geometry
>when the correct wheels are used with the correct hubs. It's when you start
>swapping from single to dual type wheels without understanding all the
>details that the trouble starts---

>Greg

Ah, professor....please elucidate, this is most counter-intuitive ;0

Understood about the relative positions of bearing and contact patch,
however that contact patch acts on the bearings through a greatly lengthened
lever arm(distance from bearings to wheel mounting surface). What are we
missing?

Jim