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Originally Posted by sperry
How is that fundamentally different, from a patent/prior art perspective? Modifying the tire for asymmetric diameter, is modifying the tire for asymmetric diameter regardless of whether it's + or -.
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Changing sidewall height/angle and design/construction may be unique enough to be patentable. Just shaving the tire the other way would not be. heck, there are probably hundreds of patents on minor variations of the classic cylindrical tire.
But I am not really interested in that aspect. The physics is far more interesting to me.
I'd love to hear from Austin on the geometry aspects.
If at turn in, you effectively move whatever the outside point is called on the leg from the CG to the effective outside contact point of the tire, how that impacts things.
I talk about camber theory all the time in my classroom sessions, and I wonder if some of what I have been saying is wrong or at least not entirely correct if tires were different.