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John Thompson
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On 2007-07-08, Jeff Potter (of OutYourBackdoor.com) <JeffOYB@hotmail.com> wrote:

> One last part of the question: Does anyone know anything about the
> bulges, concavity, wrinkles that relate to the leading and trailing
> edges of the contact patch? And maybe relate to the bias-ply
> construction vs. radial? As I mentioned the German research mentions
> this stuff but no one else has ever said a word about it.

Bicycle Quarterly did a big article on this last year.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)

Jeff Potter (of OutYourBackdoor.com)
01-03-1970, 06:51 AM
On Jul 8, 10:00 pm, John Thompson <j...@vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
> On 2007-07-08, Jeff Potter (of OutYourBackdoor.com) <Jeff...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One last part of the question: Does anyone know anything about the
> > bulges, concavity, wrinkles that relate to the leading and trailing
> > edges of the contact patch? And maybe relate to the bias-ply
> > construction vs. radial? As I mentioned the German research mentions
> > this stuff but no one else has ever said a word about it.
>
> Bicycle Quarterly did a big article on this last year.

It did?

I thought I had all those... Title? Issue? Thanks, JP