Re: oilheads-digest V1 #111

[Bob MacFarland <emoto1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/23/04 9:06 AM, Edward Begley edbegley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>I'd love to run a test on tires with guys that claim they can tell the
>>difference between them.  In such a test I'd almost bet the farm that
>>most(in fact hugely most 90% plus) COULD NOT identify correctly which tire
>>brand they had on.
>>    
>>
I think for me the keys are profile and predictability in sliding.  I 
prefer a constant radius profile and disliked the triangular profiles 
that some tires had. "Falling in" to corners is not my idea of fun, and 
since I don't spend all my time leaned way over, that doesn't work for 
me. I have found in the past that Dunlops and Metzelers begin to slide 
in a gradual, predictable and controllable way, and that Michelins let 
go abruptly but were not uncontrollable. Now that knowledge is old and 
the tire companies are constantly reformulating their compounds, so I 
cannot say that my perceptions from the past still hold true. Certainly, 
at legal speeds the differences matter little, but at elevated speeds 
they are more noticeable.

Bob

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