SleepEatJeepRepeat
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So I see this talked about on the site often, and people regularly say that tire height effects breaking and stopping, toll on drive train more than weight because of moving inertia. They then recommend regearing if you go 37s. I am planning on replacing my 35” ridge grapplers with 37” ko2. I felt this gave me a light 69lb tire, taller tire, better snow performance, and a light better road ride and trail flex (c ply version comes out in April) The 35” grappler is e ply very stiff and very heavy weighting in at 75lbs (it has been a great tire, silent smooth and looks awesome) .. a few folks on here were telling me the larger ko2 would drive worse because of the large size and spinning inertia. I wrestled with for two days, I kept thing that the amount of weight spinning had to matter very significantly as well as the size of the spinning disc. So I found a spinning disc inertia calculator online and took the specs of the manufacturer website using inflated diameter and spec weight. It actually confirmed my suspicion that the amount of weight spinning has significant impact.. the shorter heavier ridge grapplers actually has slightly more rotational inertia than the taller lighter k02.. thought I would share, to help people get what they want out of there builds
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