Timeline for Are slick bicycle tires more slippery in the wet?
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 10:12 | answer | added | ChrisW | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 9:48 | comment | added | ChrisW | @neilfein The best I can say for a bike on slick ice is that it's easier to get off and push a bike than to get out and push a car. You can get carbide-studded "ice tires" for bikes. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 4:13 | answer | added | David Hillman | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 3:58 | comment | added | Johnny | @Jay - high tire pressure and pressure on a small contact area are the same thing -- the tire pressure determines the contact area. A 100 psi tire with 100 pounds of weight on it will have a 1 square inch contact area. A fat mountain bike tire @ 20psi with the same 100 pound wright will have a 5 square inch contact patch. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 1:11 | answer | added | Dave | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 30, 2012 at 14:28 | comment | added | Chad | Say that the coeffecienet of friction is 90 when dry and 89 when wet(rectal number generation). While basically the same it is still more likely to lose traction when wet than dry. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 6:10 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | I can confirm this anecdotally; these treadless tires grip the road very, very well, even in the rain. Haven't had the guts to try them on ice yet, though. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 1:54 | comment | added | Jay Cummins |
"The high pressure of bicycle tires is more efficient at squeezing the water out from under." --I've gotten caught out in snows with 23mm slicks and was surprised by how much traction I had in a couple of inches of snow. The snow/slush would get pushed to the sides and the tire was still making contact. Although I think it is the pressure of the rider's weight on the small contact area--not the high tire pressure, that is squeezing out the water.
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| May 30, 2012 at 1:29 | answer | added | Mike Samuel | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 4:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/125059322588823552 | ||
| Oct 14, 2011 at 20:43 | comment | added | Flimzy | Loss of traction and hydroplaning are very different things. You experience a loss of traction on dry, smooth pavement. You cannot hydroplane without a puddle. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 20:29 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | I haven't seen any studies, but it's pretty easy to do a simple comparison and go out and test on your own. The tires on most bicycles are narrower than the rubber sections on those new tires that don't have horizontal grooves (at least not all the way across the tire), and those car tires work fine at pretty high speeds in significant water. Obviously weight becomes a factor at some point... | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 8:49 | comment | added | user unknown | I don't know where I read it, but I remember a number of about 90 km/h at least, to experience hydroplaning (aquaplaning?) with a bicycle and race tires. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 4:47 | history | asked | Nathan Baulch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |