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Old 03-20-2018, 09:01 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CapriRacer View Post
...because I had had other conversations where some folks assumed the RRC was a constant at a given pressure. I would really like to clear this up, but so far I haven't been able to.
As speed increases so does centrifugal force on a tyre. It would make sense to me for CRR to drop as speed rises- the tyre essentially becoming harder.

Cd isn't a constant either, we just tend to treat is as such.
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