For the facilitation of ideas...

[Techstuf]

These diagrams are woefully submitted without description....I am guessing that other afflicted souls may be able to sort them out as I haven't the time to explain them. There are some examples of interesting dynamics among them. I submit them merely for the inspiration of ideas. These are a few of my earlier designs:

[epistemologicide]

they remind me of crop circles..im sure jim or jonathen will be in soon to put them through a sim for you.

[Jonathan]

I'm not quite sure how to analyse a wheel with flexible arms. I've considered making a model though (of just the a flexible arm and a counter weight), because I don't think that the weight exerts itself on the wheel as if it were on the wheel at whatever position in which it hangs from the spring. The back-torque felt by the wheel due to the weight would definitely be less, but that is accompanied by a new back-torque due to the wheel doing work on the spring (with the weight somewhat acting as an artifical ground).