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Old 10-02-2014, 09:30 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by chillsworld View Post
I could be mistaken, but I think that was more due to a lack of tire technology and the fact that super tall skinny wheels had always been used on carriages and horse drawn wagons. I would assume load bearing, and ease of clearing obstacles was priority number one.........

You are correct that tire technology had not reached the point where low aspect ratios were common - or even possible.

For practical purposes, plain jane bias tires can not be produced with an aspect ratio lower than about 75. If you add a belt (as in bias belted tires) lower aspect ratios become possible - but those weren't invented until decades after the invention of the automobile - and once you've started down a path, it's hard to introduce radical changes.
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