RE: Zaks 'tyre width does not increase grip' thread.

[DR]

yup....I am SURE

this side of evolution 4x4

Just wanted to check

[Jiff Lemon]

Yup.....

When I was a MOT tester, was told the story by a landriver owning farmer, of how, after engaging diff locks, low ratios etc etc, he struggled up the snow covered 3 mile track to his farm house only to discover his wife wasn't home. So... he picked up his shovel and a 5kg bag of rock salt and headed back down the track, figuring he'd have to dig his wife a track.

Half way down, his wife whistled past him at 30mph in her fiat panda!

Light weight, skinny tyres. Perfect for snow.

[Event Horizon]

Classic Mechanics, Friction is Indipendant of area. Reduced grip on a narrow tyre of the same compound as a wider one is due to the rubber balling and acting as a friction reducer.

[Event Horizon]

Trying to compare a road tyre to a slick is a little like trying to compare a go kart with an F1 car.

Is that the same go-cart that holds the outright lap record at Brands Hatch...

[Zak33]

that'll be the same F1 car that can manage 200 miles in a race at the same lap times give or take a second.

Unlike a kart

[Zak33]

Classic Mechanics, Friction is Indipendant of area. Reduced grip on a narrow tyre of the same compound as a wider one is due to the rubber balling and acting as a friction reducer.

perfect perfect description.

rubber balling.

never heard it worded like that...100% the best decription.