Originally Posted by
FlashBazbo
... With wider wheels, the "tread" portion of the tire really needs to wrap a lot more of the tire -- but are tire manufacturers doing that?
As a tire leans in a corner vs leaning as someone leans the bike while going straight the contact part is different.
Looking at the cross section, it does not rotate sideways like a photo image would if you had the software rotate 30degrees. Depending... Tread can less than the lean angle and stay on the road when the wheel is leaning over more than that. So a 45degree lean can be done with tread barely over the sidewalls.