Originally Posted by
LarrySellerz
Why do you guys think wider tires for heavier riders are ideal?
You don't need to pump to such high pressures, and there extreme stresses at the contact patch are distributed over more area, which is good for both durability and wear life.
Originally Posted by
Sy Reene
Isn't it all relative? A 23 pumped to 140 psi will deflect (same tire drop) the same 15% as a 30mm tire pumped to 95psi. The same 'compressability' ?
Spring rate against a flat surface doesn't necessarily scale the same as spring rate against narrower deflectors.
https://silca.cc/blogs/silca/part-2-...tiffer-harsher
Unfortunately there's not a lot of data out there on how breakpoint pressure scales across sizes of similarly-built tires.