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Old 10-01-2014, 01:38 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by chillsworld View Post
And there are certainly downsides to "skinny" tall tires... Especially if you drive your truck like a sports car hahaha. Tire folding is a very serious, and dangerous thing... But going with a tire that has a thicker and stronger sidewall can mitigate that to some extent.
Why not go with a tire with the same sidewall height on a larger diameter rim? (Assuming you can find them, of course.) If you look at antique cars up to say the 1930s, before there were a lot of paved roads, you see that that's what most of them have: basically skinny tires on very large diameter rims. Maybe they knew something.
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