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To: x1stcav

What’s with the skinny hip hop tires?


29 posted on 01/13/2013 7:14:19 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Those ultra-low profile tires do two things: they provide enough room for the huge brake discs without being cartoonishly large, and their sidewalls are so small that the tires flex very little under side loads, giving better handling.

Sports cars have legitimate reasons for using ultra-low-profile tires, unlike those ridiculous hip-hop disasters you mention.


36 posted on 01/13/2013 7:25:31 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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