This article is about how tire dimensions work. – how they are specified by the tire standardizing organizations. If you haven’t read up on Tire Standardizing Organizations, I suggest you do so. It will help you understand this page better: Barry’s Tire Tech – Tire Standardizing Organizations Also, Tire Rack has done such a good […]
This article is about tire noise – what causes it, how tire manufacturers reduce it, and how the consumer can reduce it.
This article explains how tire load tables work. They define the relationship between inflation pressure and load carrying capacity. If you haven’t read up on Tire Standardizing Organizations, I suggest you do so. It will help you understand this page better: Barry’s Tire Tech – Tire Standardizing Organizations Below is a scan from the 2005 […]
One of the fundamentals about tires is sizing. There is a lot of confusion concerning tire sizing and this is going to explain it in general terms and basically how it works. As a general rule, tire sizing describes the physical dimensions of a tire – but that is only part of the story. It […]
If you haven’t read up on Tire Standardizing Organizations, I suggest you do so. It will help you understand this page better: Barry’s Tire Tech – Tire Standardizing Organizations Also, Tire Rack has done such a good job of explaining tire sizing that I doubt I could do better (not to mention how much work […]
This article is about the tire load vs inflation pressure relationship. It includes a discussion of how the different tire standardizing organizations treat what is, in essence, the same tire. (Hint: There isn’t an effective difference!) What you should get out of this article is that it doesn’t matter who makes the tire, you can […]
There are several tire standardizing organizations throughout the world, but I am going to concentrate on just three of them:The Tire and Rim Association (TRA) – The US organization (The cover of the 2005 Yearbook is at the top of this page) The European Tyre and Rim Technical Organization (ETRTO) – Europe (The cover of […]
