Originally Posted by
smallwheeler
serious doubts about the veracity of that article...

It seems they made that picture using equal tyre pressures for a widely-ranging tyre width, 40mm to 28mm. So the narrow tyre just about completely collapses, no wonder it looked weird. It might have been more real-world applicable to pump them proportionally the same, for same sidewall tension which is what determines tyre pressures. So a pity, at least for that picture they weren't comparing apples with apples.