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- From: billm@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Bill Miner)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: ++WIDDEST TIRE OF 5.5"wide RIM???++
- Message-ID: <2630013@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:32:12 GMT
- References: <5630160@hplsla.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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- In talking about rim width vs. tire section Thatch writes:
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- > Anyway, if your goal is to look mean, the bigger tires will do it, if your
- > goal is to kick someone's ass, don't be deceived.
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- This advice from a man who has not raced in two? years, has been driving a boat
- (literally), and who recently bought a (can you believe it?) shaft drive
- motorcycle. Now that I've impugned his believability, I must say I agree
- completely. A hopelessly simplistic (it addresses only part of the problem and
- somewhat incorretly at that) explanation is that as tire section increases
- with rim width constant you go from a load rectangle to a load triangle. Which
- is more stable? But, then again, what do I know (see questions in sig.)?
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- car load car load
- V V V
- | | vs. / \
- ^^^^ ^^^^^
- reaction of bearing surface
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- Bill Miner (billm@hpmtlbm.lvld.hp.com)
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