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| Jun 20, 2022 at 19:05 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Cars also have their weight spread out among 4 wheels. A better comparison might be between a bike and a motorcycle. These have wider tires (and only 2 of them), travel at much faster speeds (comparable to cars if not faster), and you'll see that these are also generally slick. | |
| Jun 19, 2022 at 15:46 | comment | added | Andy P | very good point about the marketing - i nearly included that in my answer. in the case of the GP5000 you mentioned, the tread pattern is actually there for aerodynamics - it was discovered by accident (i think by aerocoach if memory serves correctly) that one reason the GP4000SII gave such good results was due to aerodynamics, so conti actually kept/improved this feature for the GP5000 | |
| Jun 19, 2022 at 9:56 | comment | added | ojs | There are plenty of other reasons to have tread on bike tires. Just read the other answers. | |
| Jun 19, 2022 at 9:51 | history | answered | juhist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |