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Old 05-03-2010, 12:24 PM   #124 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post
What are you going on about? because he says 35 psi instead of making a chart you dismiss the whole of the article? ........
Sorry, but that was in response to:

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Originally Posted by natefish View Post
Perhaps the article was accurate in 2005 when it was published. Mr. Storton seems to have a pretty good list of qualifications after his name, I doubt he just made stuff up for fun.

Can you provide the source the makes you think he is wrong?.....
and that's what I provided. If you would like a point by point rebutal of the article, I can provide it, but that hardly seems necessary.

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.......re: grip, look at your own pic.........you can clearly see the contact patch getting more rectangular with higher psi. Meaning the load is pretty well balanced across the tread, not round cross sectioned......
The question on the table was if the steel belts in a tire prevent the tread face from arching. So it's not the shape of the footprint, but the pressure distribution - in other words the colors within each footprint - that are important here.
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