Flex Wheel Durometer Change

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I recently noticed that the vex products page for flex wheels, now lists 40A flex wheels for sale and not longer lists 45A flex wheels anywhere on the website:

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Has vex actually stopped selling 45A flex wheels and now sells 40A flex wheels in their place or is this a typo? @DRow

Assuming there has actually been a shift in the products vex sells, this now makes all 45A flex wheels illegal, as they are discontinued and are no longer listed on the vex website:

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If so, can anyone please send a picture of a side by side comparison of 45A and 40A flex wheels side by side, as the images on the product page seem to be the same and I imagine plenty of teams are unaware that many of their previously legal flex wheels are now illegal.

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If this actually makes 45A flexwheels illegal, it would completeley screw over quite alot of teams this year.

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Yikes, quite the predicament at inspection if 45A are illegal.

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For reference, 45A Durometer Flex Wheels were recently re-labeled to 40A on the website to more accurately match their durometer. The SKU’s did not change.

Any “45A” VEX Flex Wheel is still legal for use in the VEX V5 Robotics Competition.

I just added a note to the product page to reiterate this. Apologies for the confusion.

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DRow for GDC!

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Gosh, VEX is trying hard to show its softer side.

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