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Old 01-08-2010, 01:08 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ernie Rogers View Post
The rolling resistance coefficient of a tire can be measured by simply bouncing the tire on a hard surface.
Wouldn't that be estimating the Crr, since you are deriving Crr from a bounce test, and not directly measuring RR?

The only valid way I can think of to properly test this is to conduct both bounce tests and proper Crr testing and see if there is a correlation in the results.
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