Another important application is motorized bicycles, where a rubber-coated roller connected to the motor drives one of the bike wheels by friction. Other examples are add-on motors to operate hand wheels.

Wheel and track

Another important type of friction drive consists of a wheel rolling over a mostly flat surface or mostly straight track. This could be seen as a limiting case of the parallel-cylinder arrangement where one of the cylinders has practically infinite radius. In this

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