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The other element is this: with a wider tire, one can generally run LOWER pressures, further adding to the area of the contact patch. I know I should have let you gentlemen fogure this out on your own, but I couldn't resist.

More to come . . .
Ed
OK, I'll bite. How come the lower pressures with wider tyres? And how do you get same contact patch with narrower tyres at same pressures? - same weight on less rubber = more squat?
Sometimes it seems easier just to turn the key and mash the pedal. But getting a primo setup has to be the goal.
Alan
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