Thread: Tyre Width

Originally Posted by donh54

It's not what you've got, it's how you use it

Saw a video recently with a lifted and locked big time fourby owner talking about how well his rig performed on this gnarly track up in the Gulf, and in the bushes behind him, was the remains of an XW Falcon. Wonder how it got there? Talking to a friend about it later and he's pretty sure it used to be the station cooks car. Did the track dozens of times until some spinifex caught fire under it.

I'll go with that. Look at Len Beadell and the gear he had to travel tracks before they were tracks and compare that to the gear that you "need" to travel those tracks today.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Driver mentality has a lot to do with it also, if he took the right line and drove carefully he would do it easy.
Its the heavy boot that gets them undone most of the time.

Agreed. And not to mention tram tracking on road with overly wide tyres.

Cheers

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

This whole idea that wider tyres mean the vehicle can 'float over' the terrain just seems to have rocks in it as far as I can see.
Firstly, the vehicle doesn't float over mud or sand because the weight still causes it to sink down.
Secondly, the wider tyre is pushing more sand or mud in front of it, so it's actually harder to proceed.
The better way is for a taller narrow tyre because that gives a longer footprint while minimizing the wall to be pushed, I reckon.
Of course, this is a much-debated topic.