I believe it's all about tire pressure. If air is pushing the tire away from the rim with a force of 40 psi, that means that the road surface is pushing back with an equal force of 40 psi. So an object trying to puncture a wide tire is not pushing against the tread surface with as much force as it would be with a narrower tire at higher pressure.
If someone wearing wide sole shoes stepped on your toe, you'd feel it but it wouldn't hurt much. If that same person stepped on your toe with the heel of a high heel shoe, I'm willing to bet it'd hurt a whole lot more. Same idea. Anton On Monday, October 27, 2014 10:20:28 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > > Why would wider ones get fewer flats, for that matter? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
