Originally Posted by
DonRocinante
Thanks, for that. I’m on thin wheels & tires which a guy I’ve ridden with a few times has commented on. Maybe that’s it. More weight on such a narrow surface at a sharp angle & the tire just slipped. I was worried that I might have actually rubbed the wheel itself on the asphalt but there is no damage to it. I guess my throwing my leg down as it slipped out from under me just saved it. I rode the same path today and was a lot slower in those turns and had no problem at all. Man, it was the weirdest thing & felt scary as hell.
There's no term for surface area in the formula for friction, i.e. tire width makes no difference. If anything, narrow tires corner better, or I should say, tires approximately as wide as the rim on which they are mounted corner best. That said, some tires stick a lot better than others.