My winter ties are smaller than my summer tires

[88Racing]

Originally Posted by longshot270

Pardon my ignorance but why do you lower the squish when figuring the snow tire? If going to a slighly narrower tire, I would expect if anything for the squish to go up. Is there a difference in material or something? :nerd:

The more rim and the less side wall=the less squish. With low profile tires their side walls have less flexiblity because they are thicker.

Lars

[Longshot270]

Originally Posted by 88Racing

The more rim and the less side wall=the less squish. With low profile tires their side walls have less flexiblity because they are thicker.

Lars

Oh yeah, I guess I'm just used to 15-17 inch rims where there is larger differences in squish. Haha I've also never even seen someone with winter tires so I couldn't pick one out if it was an inch from my nose. No need for snow tires down here in central south texas, we either have dust, mud or ice (ranked in most common). We also only have ice for about one or two weeks out of the year, leaving just enough time for people to wrap their cars around trees and telephone poles. I dont even count anymore how often I hear "well I could drive on the ice back home no problem."

[88Racing]

Originally Posted by longshot270

Oh yeah, I guess I'm just used to 15-17 inch rims where there is larger differences in squish. Haha I've also never even seen someone with winter tires so I couldn't pick one out if it was an inch from my nose. No need for snow tires down here in central south texas, we either have dust, mud or ice (ranked in most common). We also only have ice for about one or two weeks out of the year, leaving just enough time for people to wrap their cars around trees and telephone poles. I dont even count anymore how often I hear "well I could drive on the ice back home no problem."

Yep you got that right about the weather down there!
I have played down there and worked there too!
Best thing I have learned in any of the soutern states and ice is just stay off the roads! It's more comical to watch people drive on that stuff than anything else. I guess no matter where a person lives it's just plain good common sense to stay off the roads when they are icy!

Lars

[Longshot270]

Well while living in the south I found out that truck tires may slide very well but bike tires do not. My back brake lines froze so I was going on just the front when everything just happened to grip and that front gripped enough to send me over. Ice hurts. Ice has traction, its just when you dont want it.