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Lighter tires...
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
IMHO Capri Racer's advice to go wide makes sense if you are loading the tires to near max capacity. I would expect a tire engineer- who is always concerned with liability issues- to have that position.
However I think if your vehicle is always at the lightly loaded end of the spectrum, fe gains can be had from going narrower, to tires with fewer plies and thinner sidewalls and treads. I have yet to personally test that theory.
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The one does not have to rule out the other. Give me a tire thats both narrow and has thin layers anytime, if it is a quality tire and strong (enough).
Was wondering, are there commercially available tires where the layers have indeed been thinned and lightened, like having the steel belts replaced by carbon, kevlar of even glass fiber?
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