What happens when you want to take one of the world’s most exciting winter sport and put it on pavement? You call Darcor, that’s what.

When the city of Nanaimo put on a multi-competition event designed to promote the immensely popular ‘Extreme Games’ feel often associated with West Coast sports, PacificSport was provided with the venue to host an unprecedented event - The Darcor Land Luge Competition. Canadian National Team coaches and athletes were invited to demonstrate the sport on a downtown course in a luge competition that saw the largest crowd and most enthusiasm over the two-day event.

The Problem: How do you customize a traditional luge sled to glide on asphalt while not compromising the speed and intense control that is synonymous with this great Olympic event?

The Darcor Solution: The 65-XD neoprene wheel.
Shore Hardness: 62"A" Scale
An ideal solution for countless environments and applications, Darcor’s 65-XD smooth-rolling wheel has an extraordinary ability to silently roll over any number of obstacles and floor litter without stopping, jarring or allowing particles to embed in the tread. This challenge however, lay in that the speeds would far exceed those normally encountered by the wheel, the floor was a road, and the cargo was a human being.
Once again, Darcor quality and innovation stepped up to the podium. Darcor’s 65-XD even allowed the athletes to effortlessly negotiate a sharp turn at the end of a long downhill stretch in which racers reached speeds in excess of a blurring 65 km/h.

“They were fabulous! They had great bite,” said Drew Cooper, General Manager of PacificSport-Vancouver Island of the 65-XD’s performance.

“Without Darcor’s support,” said Mr. Cooper, “we wouldn’t have been able to put on the event”.

Look for Darcor’s neoprene wheels in action at the Land Luge Competition or in Darcor’s Mission Possible ad in Design News, Design Engineering, Industrial Equipment News or Machinery & Equipment (MRO).