Thread: Rim/tire width
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Old 01-23-2012, 03:55 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CapriRacer View Post
Thanks for that! I'll admit that I'm still trying to wrap my head around some of the conclusions regarding the lower rolling resistance of wider tires because I still find the subject to be somewhat abstract. What can I say? I'm a visual/kinesthetic kind of guy.

Regardless, I always try to look for other contributing factors, so I still want to look more closely at how the RR results were arrived at. Just a shot in the dark here, but could one of the major contributing factors to increased RR on wider tires have something to do with weight to surface/frontal area ratio?
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