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Old 03-26-2013, 03:23 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I just found a polish test of All Season Tires (like my Klebers) and it turned out that Quadraxers have very low rolling resistance


The chart is based on measuring RR in kg per tone

Whole article here (in Polish): Na ka
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