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Old 02-08-2011, 09:51 PM   #21 (permalink)
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d0sitmatr -

Thanks. This is egg-zactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I guess it's the law of (quickly) diminishing returns. It makes me feel I was lucky to stick to one-size-up from stock, which added about 1 lb per tire. Two-size-up from stock always added at about 3+ lbs per tire.

I would guess that if you bumped-up the tires and decreased the weight of the wheels by the same amount, then you would be able to negate the flywheel-effect.

CarloSW2

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