Great British Roads that are focced up.are sports compound tyres now applicable?

[noggythenog]

You want the tyre to be able to grip better on uneven surfaces, not loose surfaces.  So the important things are contact patch and ability (speed) to cope with the change is surface height. 

To me this means fatter tyres, tread to remove water but no knobs, lower pressures and 'softer' suspension.  The trade off will be a more squirmy ride.

In the world of road bicycling people are coming to the same conclusion.  Roads are shit, so run wider tyres at lower pressures and bikes with more comfortable geometry and contact points.  The racy feeling may not be as 'exciting', but the ride is more comfortable and enjoyable - it is a just a 'different' ride.

The reason the original Fazer was so popular was because it had good power, but was a real road bike so was also comfortable (and cheap).  The question is what it the Fazer of the tyre world?  I like pirelli diablos, but it woudl be interesting to see if there are any noticable differences in tyres ability to deform to variable road surfaces (compared at a constant pressure across brands)

Somehow i think youve sussed my thinking here even though my methods are a bit obscure perhaps.........it matters not as ive already promised stevie that ill give the Maxxis Diamonds a fair shot but the questions remain.




You've hit on something important here.....the ability of a tyre to "adapt" quickly.......it's the response that is important......so whether that means that the compound reacts......or like you say that the tyre is for example infinetly wider so that when a part of it hits a dodgy patch then there's still enough of it left on the good patch of surface...........but i still dont quite understand the whole science behind it.......i thought that regardless of how wide a tyre was that the contact point on the road pretty much was the same.....but no......the more i think about it then the more  i suppose if the same fat rider (me) is on the bike then the wider tyre will have a bit more of a squishy bit on the road.....with the same pressure......is that correct or false?


So wide tyre.....lower pressure.......less responsive......but more forgiving on the crap bits..........is that the crack?