Pastashop
02-08-2016, 09:20 PM
This is mostly for tires for the motorized vehicles, but it's accounts of actual engineers actually testing and analyzing things in mostly reproducible ways:
http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807823/13/Proceedings%20of%20the%204th%20International%20Tyr e%20Colloquium_Gruber_Sharp_2015.pdf
Bike-related:
Page 118: BICYCLE TIRE MEASUREMENTS AND STEADY-STATE MODELS, FOR USE IN VEHICLE DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS
(And I do like that they reference papers from the 19th century... Back when bikes were the hot new technology!)
http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807823/13/Proceedings%20of%20the%204th%20International%20Tyr e%20Colloquium_Gruber_Sharp_2015.pdf
Bike-related:
Page 118: BICYCLE TIRE MEASUREMENTS AND STEADY-STATE MODELS, FOR USE IN VEHICLE DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS
(And I do like that they reference papers from the 19th century... Back when bikes were the hot new technology!)