May-16-2018 07:25 AM
May-16-2018 06:55 PM
azdryheat wrote:
The fact that tire is spelled tyre makes me suspicious of the theory. 🙂
May-16-2018 05:29 PM
May-16-2018 04:33 PM
May-16-2018 01:00 PM
Harvard wrote:
This is just a theory:
When the pressure in a tyre is reduced the contact patch is enlarged. The total dynamics of the rolling tyre start where the “rubber hits the road”. As such one half of the increase in the contact patch length is added to the mechanical trail there by increasing the straight line stability in the same manner as increasing the caster angle.
(Mechanical Trail is the moment arm between the steering pivot point (fore) and the center of the contact patch (aft))
May-16-2018 12:49 PM
May-16-2018 08:55 AM