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Old 03-19-2008, 09:15 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I can see how rolling resistance could go up when the diameter of the tire is increased because the size of the contact patch will increase, but I would go to more narrow tires, so the decreased drag, and marginall same weight and contact patch should produce a FE increase, but I'd have to run some numbers on some specific tires.
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