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Old 04-11-2011, 10:38 AM   #35 (permalink)
Vekke
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Originally Posted by CapriRacer View Post
While I can confirm that tire manufacturers develop tires in a couple of sizes, then scale them up and down as appropriate, I think what the test says is that there is something else going on and you can't compare the rolling resistance of tires of different sizes.
Yes I also meant that popular sizes. Usually this means tires that are normally used as factory size tires on cars. There 3-5 popular sizes on different size cars. Other sizes are then scaled like you confirmed. This gived me a nice idea and lets see how things start to develop.

That report was superb. If you have more similar "open" reports on your sleeve please post .
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