Thread: Tire Sipe
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Old 02-21-2014, 11:45 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I was hoping you would chime in with some intelligent discussion and information. I am aware that tires don't strictly follow friction theory I'm not really sure why I tapped it, other than contact patch does not directly correlate to traction and there are a several things going on. Perhaps you can correct inform me if my understanding that one of the functions of tire size is temperature control for the contact patch?
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