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From: smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning)
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Subject: Re: snow tires
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 07:35:46 EDT
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> Considering the logical
> extremes, inch-wide tires would work very poorly on snow and ice.  Yet, I'd
> imagine that ten foot wide tires would work great, assuming they held onto the
> rims and I stayed in the center of vacant three-lane highways :^).

I assume that "works great" assumes that you are driving a toboggan.  I think
that you would always go down hill.  The faster you 10 foot tires rotated up hill
the faster you would go down hill since you would create that nice low friction
layer.