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06-10-19, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Skipjacks

So manufacturers label a tire width based on a formula of bead to bead divided by 2.5?

Do you mean bead to bead when the tire is uncurled and laid flat? As in the total length of the rubber between the beads?

My mind just got blown.

Heh. That is what I read a few years ago, and the practice might have changed.

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