Slick tyres. Advice & reassurance needed

[gaz]

I think you will find that it is the composition of the tyre more than the tread that gives grip. The favoured tyre for a formula 1 car is a slick, wet weather tyres have a tread designed to get the water away from the tyre because the more rubber that hits the road the better the grip. Slicks with a heavy rubber content will wear quickly because of this.

There is a fundamental difference between a bicycle slick tyre and a F1 slick tyre. Whilst what you are saying is technically correct. Your comparison to F1 is not the best.

 

[gaz]

Soory but your original was:

which is gibberish as tread and tyre width are unconnected.

Cycle tyres cannot aquaplane therefore do not need tread to remove water.

1. Cycle tyres grip the road by close (errm, intimate) contact of rubber and road surface
ie the rubber deforms to grip the road surface: the more rubber in contact with the tarmac the better the grip.

2.Tread reduces the amount of rubber in contact with the road surface

3. ergo tread reduces grip = slicks provide better grip.


read Sheldon's linked article.

Cycle tyres can aquaplane, just at speeds which are unobtainable without using some sort of aero suit and going down a mountain.
just to clarify for others reading, 3 is correct for bicycle tyres but not for tyres used on other vehicles such as cars.

 

[MattHB]

There is a fundamental difference between a bicycle slick tyre and a F1 slick tyre. Whilst what you are saying is technically correct. Your comparison to F1 is not the best.

Unless you happen to be able to output 521989.9104 watts (700hp)

 

[gaz]

Unless you happen to be able to output 521989.9104 watts (700hp)

lol. that is certainly a difference. But not the one that is key in this topic. More the shape of the tyre and how the vehicles turn.

 

[PK99]

Cycle tyres can aquaplane, just at speeds which are unobtainable without using some sort of aero suit and going down a mountain.
just to clarify for others reading, 3 is correct for bicycle tyres but not for tyres used on other vehicles such as cars.

Why post a deliberately confusing post? Speed required at 100 psi is over 100mph :

The ultimate recorded max is 208 mph "Riding on a rolling road after being towed to 100 mph, on a custom made £1,000,000 bicycle" - no standing water there then!

the down hill record is 138mph "]Downhill on snow, on a prototype bicycle" - no standing water there either!

The flat surface, unpaced record speed is 83mph and the down hill - there could be standing water there, but, hey, the speed is not hight enough

To all intents and purposes a cycle tyre does not aquaplane

 

[gaz]

Why post a deliberately confusing post?

Says you, who originally posted

Cycle tyres cannot aquaplane therefore do not need tread to remove water.

But they can aquaplane and the reason they don't need tread is not because of what you have said.

Pot calling the kettle black?

 

[Widge]

Mi average speed at the moment is just about double figures.

Has I got a problem with aquaplaing?