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Default Does a tyre change its CIRCUMFERENCE when underinflated?

On 29/06/18 08:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

It can change *shape* but not *length* (except by 1% or so, which no
one is disputing), and that is what I say above.


Now that we know that we're talking about detecting speed changes under
0.5% you can't discount a circumference change of 1%.



We dont.

That sort of change is about what one would expect from steel or kevlar
cables.



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