Miata Mailing List: July 1998, Message #81

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Previously on R model, Lanny Chambers <lanny@derived.com> said...

> That doesn't matter either, John. The tire pressure still determines the 
> contact area. With a larger-diameter tire, the patch may be longer 
> front-to-back, but it will also be narrower side-to-side.

I'm sorry, but you are going to have to convince me that the Terex tire doesn't have
a bigger contact patch than a similarly inflated 13" CRX tire.  If you take your
point to extreme, a tire of infinite diameter must have a contact patch the width of
a singularity.  Suppose it is a 205/55-Infinity tire at 26 PSI, Granted the contact
patch is gonna be pretty long, but it will still be the same width as your
205/55-13.

	-John

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John Freas (jfreas@earthlink.net)
Red '90 Base-ish #7690
Birmingham, AL
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