Continental Terra Speed 700Cx40 Tires
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Torque does affect the tyre wear at equal weight. The more torque, the more load on the interface tyre/tarmac and the rubber cohesion gets more solicited causing more wear.
Yes the weight may be a greater factor in this instance but torque is also a factor.
look at rear wheel drive front engine car (typical bmw/mx5), the rear tends to wear faster although the weight distribution is biased towards the front. On my mid engine race car, despite looking 10% in weight and keeping the same weight distribution, adding 50% extra torque changed the tyre behavior; wear increase, pressure increase, everything had to be reviewed.
Yes the weight may be a greater factor in this instance but torque is also a factor.
look at rear wheel drive front engine car (typical bmw/mx5), the rear tends to wear faster although the weight distribution is biased towards the front. On my mid engine race car, despite looking 10% in weight and keeping the same weight distribution, adding 50% extra torque changed the tyre behavior; wear increase, pressure increase, everything had to be reviewed.
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I'm not sure your analogy holds up. Driving a car aggressively (burnouts, drifting around corners) will obviously wear out tires faster, but riding a road bike faster involves no such additional tire wear. And while higher-speed driving creates more heat and friction on auto tires, I'm not convinced that cycling speeds are anywhere near high enough to create such an effect.
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Light, supple, fast, bias towards narrow as opposed to true width (at least when mounted to 18mm internal width rims). Not counting my miles but I suppose they do wear pretty easily. I figure once I do wear out all the knobs they'll just function like a fat slick. I prefer the Terra Trail with the more aggressive knobs (but I suppose those wear easily as well). My favorite gravel tire among a few other popular models I've tried. But I spread my miles across 4-5 bikes and I don't do a ton of gravel riding.
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