Dude. That video clearly shows slipping on street paint. Someone even points that out as the very first video comment and brings up it decidedly NOT being hydroplaning. This is hilarious at this stage.
Again, that absolutely isn’t what hydroplaning even is. This type of wet slipping is directly addressed and referenced in the links I posted. Reduction of the coefficient of friction on a slick surface (road markings) because of water (and possible oil from the road) and the loss of traction of a tire is not the same thing as hydroplaning. It’s essentially the same as crashing on a rail road track crossing when it’s wet. Not hydroplaning.
It’s still super dangerous though and tire tread design and width certainly does impact that. No one is arguing that.
Hydroplaning is literally floating over the top of a film of water. It’s related to buoyancy in a sense and dictated by principles of fluid dynamics. That isn’t what happened in any of these videos. And it can’t physically happen on a bicycle tire at speeds less than 100mph.
Every time you post videos you simply show how little you actually know about what you’re referencing. It’s OK to be misinformed or not understand what a given term technically means.
But again, none of this has anything to do with truck tires that are all relatively the same width anyway. lol.
Ok, ok…. A 235mm vs a 15.5” wide tire will definitely behave differently in the rain. Duh. But few of us are operating at those extremes on these trucks.
For most us, running midsized tires, tread design for water evacuation and compound choice are going to be the deciding factors for overall wet weather performance. Definitely more so than going from a 275 to a 285.
Cheers!
Again, that absolutely isn’t what hydroplaning even is. This type of wet slipping is directly addressed and referenced in the links I posted. Reduction of the coefficient of friction on a slick surface (road markings) because of water (and possible oil from the road) and the loss of traction of a tire is not the same thing as hydroplaning. It’s essentially the same as crashing on a rail road track crossing when it’s wet. Not hydroplaning.
It’s still super dangerous though and tire tread design and width certainly does impact that. No one is arguing that.
Hydroplaning is literally floating over the top of a film of water. It’s related to buoyancy in a sense and dictated by principles of fluid dynamics. That isn’t what happened in any of these videos. And it can’t physically happen on a bicycle tire at speeds less than 100mph.
Every time you post videos you simply show how little you actually know about what you’re referencing. It’s OK to be misinformed or not understand what a given term technically means.
But again, none of this has anything to do with truck tires that are all relatively the same width anyway. lol.
Ok, ok…. A 235mm vs a 15.5” wide tire will definitely behave differently in the rain. Duh. But few of us are operating at those extremes on these trucks.
For most us, running midsized tires, tread design for water evacuation and compound choice are going to be the deciding factors for overall wet weather performance. Definitely more so than going from a 275 to a 285.
Cheers!
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