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Old 09-02-2009, 08:25 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by orange4boy View Post
Roughly how high is the pressure spike when a tire is under full deflection like when hitting a curb.
You can go with a worst case scenario using the perfect gas law and an approximation of the volume being reduced by the curb. We're looking at a 10% spike at most.
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