Originally posted by javaContour:
Ok,
I understand the area thing. So, give two tires of like construction, same tire pressure, the area of the contact patch "should" be the same. But the length and width values would be different.
And that was in my original question. Perhaps my assumption that the writers in these web articles are also keeping other variables the same and only varying the width of the tire, and hence the width of the contact patch, is incorrect.
But what really happens?
TB
Well we can always go back to the Double tire like trucks have. There was (maybe still is) a company in europe making rims like that for high performance cars. Basically because this guy was getting sick of being passed by VW's on the Autobahn whenever it was raining. He made the dualie rim and the tires basically 'cut' through the water like a bycicle tire.
For all practical reasons, the wider the tire, the more likely you are to hydroplane.
