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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
...Steel belted tires CAN flex like that. I've done contact patch experiments and saw how inflation pressure lifted the edges. We can all be right- for our circumstances. I wouldn't want to make a blanket statement of it. Who's to know what the criteria is for when the centers are going to wear out prematurely or not?
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Far be it from me to pretend you guys don't have real experiences and knowledge! But I have a hard time imagining steel stretching. That's my hangup in these discussions. What tire designs could allow steel belted tires to stretch, some sort of mesh?
And if there are tires designed in ways that allow that steetching and others that don't it would useful to know which they are. I've had no trouble with Michelin Defenders and Harmonys as well as a nonname cheapo brand labelled Ultra GT.
Also, a BF Goodrich "tire problems" page I was just looking at claims center wear on some tires can be a consequence of UNDER inflation on some tires.
J