Thread: Wheels - 13 or 14 for better efficiency?
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Old 01-27-2009, 09:41 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hypermiler01 View Post
If everything else is equal then it will be. Less mass, less volume of material, and less frontal area.
There are too many variables to have a blanket statement that says skinnier is better for r.r.
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