yeah i dont understand the part about a wider tire having the same contact patch.
and i understand a smaller contact patch with the same mass will have a higher psi, making the friction greater...
i just get this to work out in my brain. can someone explain the heat benifit thing?
i was thinking of it like this. lets blow this up super big and say the grip stuff they put down is actually little spikes sticking up. a large tire will have thousands of spikes sticking into it. a tiny little tire will have one spike in it (obviously exagerating).... so obviously the thousand spikes will provide more grip and traction than the one spike....
does that make sense?
or another way of looking at it.... lets say you have sticky hands and are climbing up a wall..... wouldnt huge hands provide a lot more grip than tiny hands?
haha