Originally Posted by
Racing Dan
The size of the contact patch is determined by the pressure, not width or anything else. For that reason i tend to believe "pressure equivalency" IS pressure.
Boy I hate to pile in on this zombie thread...
but why should a 23mm bike tire and a 50mm bike tire have the same contact patch size? Shouldn’t your contact patch size be proportional to the size of the tire?
You are certainly wrong that a 100psi tire feels just as hard regardless of tire size.