Firestone Transforce tires
Anyone had any experience with these tires? Looking at the reviews it is about 50-50 excellent/worthless. It doesn't make sense. My Michelin OEM tires are cracking all over the sidewall after ...
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CapriRacer wrote:Grit dog wrote:
Yer a little off there Capri dude.
Softer tread = worse mileage. Harder compound = longer lasting and less rolling resistance. Albeit on a very small scale. More about tread design and tire pressure.
Sorry, dog. There is a 3 way technological triangle involving tread, traction, and rolling resistance. I talk a bit about it here:
Barry's Tire Tech - Rolling Resistance and Fuel Economy
Good write up, to explain basically mudders get worse mileage than street tires and less psi = more rolling resistance.
The tread compound thing is splitting hairs though and less resistance to deflection in the tread affecting mileage positively is, well, if it's true, microscope enough that one couldn't say either way. Seriously. Tire carcass is not softer on a snow tire, the tread is.
Harder tires, either tread compound, psi, tread design yield better mileage.
That triangle has a VERY short 3rd side!
