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Re: how tire size affects tire wear



At 10:06 AM 6/7/01 -0300, Joao T. da Costa wrote:
>The contact patch is larger--otherwise there would be no advantage to 
>wider tires.

Hhmmm... isn't the contact patch of a 17 inch 245 series tire the same as 
the contact patch of a 18 inch 245 series tire?

>I would suppose that, generally speaking, lower profiles tend to go hand 
>in hand with softer compounds.

Makes sense to me.

Kevin
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