I was just thinking about reducing the wet weather wheelspin whilst improving tyre footprint by 20mm width, I know standard the tyres are 205 50 16.
Using willtheyfit.com (rather than my trusty calculator):
Current / Future
Diameter 611.4mm / 608.9mm
Circumference 1920.8mm / 1912.9mm
Poke 42.6mm / 42.6mm
Inset 122.6mm / 122.6mm
Speedo error 0% / 0.41%
Reading at 30mph 30mph / 30.12mph
Reading at 60mph 60mph / 60.25mph
Ride height gain 0mm / -1.25mm
Arch gap loss 0mm / -1.25m
As can be seen above, the tyre profile would effectively be the same, just not sure that it's advisable to put a tyre on the same rim with 20mm more width?
Quite a while before my tyres are up for replacement, but was just pondering this query and thought someone here will have tried it?
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