DougC wrote:
The front tire should have /at/ /least/ the same contact patch are as
the rear, /if/ /not/ /more/.
Why?
I've never worried about this on any bike I've ever had, and I don't
recall ever suffering as a result, so it comes over as rather more
grounded in theory than practice.
I don't see why the front tyre needs calibrating to the rear. It
doesn't know what pressure the rear is running at or what the contact
patch is: shirley whether it will skid or not is down to absolutes, not
values relative to the back?
Pete.
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