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04.05.2008, 01:54 PM

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macrow: ballooning depends a lot on the tire and the foams used inside. For a tire to balloon out, the sidewalls have to contract and good/harder foams will help limit this. 1" ballooning on a 4.25" tire is a 23.5% increase in tire size! That would make the tires look like pizza cutters and would seriously hamper handling. The calc only show theoretical speed, ot theoretical controllable speed.
I'm running these in the road. And they do look like pizza cutters at full throttle. And handling goes out the window. From the looks of it 1 inch ballooning was a conservative guess. That would only be a half inch expansion all around.
   
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