New answers tagged comfort
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Does low tire pressure affect safe, minimum tire clearance?
For the most part it doesn't matter because at the spots where the tire is passing close to the frame/fork, it's unloaded by anything but air pressure and will be dimensionally very close regardless ...
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Does low tire pressure affect safe, minimum tire clearance?
By "clearance" I assume you mean distance between the tire and frame members.
If you run a tire at low pressure, that only affects the tire's shape where it contacts the ground. It won't ...
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Assuming fixed tire width, what features makes a tire more comfortable?
I'm with DoNuT in the comments. Tire pressure is more important than tire type.
Use the recommended inflation as a starting point and then experiment with tire pressure. You'll find that different ...
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Assuming fixed tire width, what features makes a tire more comfortable?
I'm afraid there's no single specs that can be used to know what can make a tire comfortable. The main criteria is suppleness (besides pressure, obviously), that allows a tire to easily deform to ...
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