19-03-13, 05:13 PM
(19-03-13, 02:13 PM)Dead Eye link Wrote: Surely and oval tyre means less contact patch when leant over but a huge contact patch when straight up?Maybe not when you think about it. Imagine a square cardboard box on a table and tilt it at a 45 degree angle. The contact would be a lot more when it's upright and there will only be on a very narrow contact leant over. Now imagine that cardboard box is the shape of a football...no matter what angle it is at, it will have the same contact to the surface, if you know what I mean.