Thread: Tire size vs gearing
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Old 01-15-15 | 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by rms13
Tire width has no correlation to gearing.
Not by itself, no...but different widths will generally mean different heights, which means a change in the diameter and circumference of the wheel, which has an effect on gearing.
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