| Re: Continental Road Attack tire question |
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Group: rec.motorcycles.tech · Group Profile
Author: BodineBodine Date: May 11, 2008 18:57
On Sun, 11 May 2008 01:25:56 GMT, paul c wrote:
>paul c wrote:
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>> There are probably some deep physics involved here which are beyond me,
>> to do with pressures and directions and fluids, but in practice any
>> arrow when viewed from the left side of the tire, ...
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>Oops,sorry, left or right doesn't matter.
The funny thing is, Continental inverts all of the writing on the Road
Attack so that it is read from the tread side of the tire, not the rim
side, like normal tires. That allows you to see the cool race flag
pattern, but is the cause of the confusion. On a normal tire, you
would read across the top of the tire, where the writing is right side
up. If that were the case, the arrow and writing would be OK. On the
Road Attack, you read across the bottom, where the "front" text inside
the arrow is right side up, but the arrow would point forward, against
the forward rotation. That's why I'm wondering if the text "front"
refers to the rotation or the physical front of the bike.
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