Cam mate

Here's the picture - not EXACTLY our situation, but close. BMX track (up,
down, all around closed loop), put a bike on it and make the bike stay on
the track with a cam mate on the front wheel, and a cam mate on the back
wheel. Now try to drag it around - won't go. My research found the
consensus of only one cam mate allowed. Any current thoughts?

WT

 

Ok, here's an update. If you mate the center plane of the bike to the sweep
path, then it will work. Seems quite illogical to tie it down even more to
make it work, but that's what happened. My guess is that without that mate,
it tries to calculate all the possibilities of going off some other
direction, and then when that fails, doesn't remember how to get back on the
track.

WT

 

Are the wheel toroidal or cylindrical?

I've been experimenting with multiple cam mates and got a tricky setup
working with multiple cam mates by experimentation mainly. I found that
trying different part locations prior to applying the mate helped. I also
noticed the the cam mate seems to always jump to the wrong side if it can,
it's most unfriendly that way...

Zander

 

The wheels are actually cam followers in our case and they are flat faced.

WT