Re: discouraging tire measurements

From: Michael Maskalans (mike-lists@tepidcola.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 09:16:13 EDT


On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 07:34 America/New_York, andy levy wrote:

> Michael Maskalans wrote:
>
>> so my "30 x 9.5" Geolandars are actually 29 x 7.75.

> Jack the truck up and re-measure. You've got a load on the tire, and
> the factory build/measures them without one. You'll probably gain
> that inch in diameter back.

I actually was measuring across the tire (front to back) so there was
no compression, however the measurement is inaccurate due to the
sidewall bulge, and I wasn't particularly careful in measuring the
diameter. Right now I'm more interested in where the made up width
numbers are coming from....

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