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Vekke · 04-09-2011, 10:12 AM

I have always tought that tire companies do almost all the R&D work on popular sizes. Then they will just scale it down to other sizes and widths and say that they are the same. Maybe that test proves my estimations true?

04-09-2011, 10:12 AM	#33 (permalink)
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