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Could be that when you're headed down a straight at high speed (and thus don't really need any real grip for accel in any direction), the extra surface area and

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Old 06-29-2014, 04:18 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Could be that when you're headed down a straight at high speed (and thus don't really need any real grip for accel in any direction), the extra surface area and grip is just more "rolling resistance" of a sort.
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