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Old 11-09-2008, 06:36 PM   #206 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by solarguy View Post
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Those tend to be harder compound, and I wonder if that systematically reduces or increases hysteresis losses and/or RR.....

troy
No, Troy. Tires with high treadwear numbers give poor RR - they generate lots of hysteresis.

The triange is treadwear, traction, rolling resistance. These 3 properties are balance in a tread compound and gains in one must result in sacrifices in one or more of the others. So as a general rule tires with good rolling resistance (such as OE tires) generally have poor treadwear or traction (or both.)
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