Interesting. One additional remark about the tires on racing cars and motorcycles: They run 'em very hot. That's why you see the cars swerving from side to side when they're going slow during a yellow caution flag in a NASCAR race, to keep 'em heated up for when the green flag goes down. The softer tire compounds heat up more quickly, too. 'Course, this doesn't usually happen with bicycle tires, given the slower speeds, etc.
BTW, I seem to recall from the distant cobwebs of my aging cranium an article about tires and tread that Grant wrote years ago in one of his Riv Readers, concluding that any tread on a bike tire was more or less irrelevant due to the small "footprint" of the tire on the riding surface. I'll have to fish around and see if I can find it, to see what he did in fact say… On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 8:19:06 AM UTC-6, Jan Heine wrote: > > Sometimes, it seems that tire tread is just about "design", but there > actually are real reasons why some tires stick better than others, > especially in the wet... > > https://janheine.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/why-slick-tires-dont-stick-well/ > > Jan Heine > Compass Bicycles Ltd. > www.compasscycle.com > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
