1986 goes up ski jumper ramp

[Louis-Alain Richard]

Maybe not on snow, but a racing tire like this on ice would do it.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/continental%20ice%20racing%20tire/maxpoir
ier593/img062.jpg

Louis-Alain



-----Message d'origine-----
De : quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De
la part de Helge
Envoyé : 12 mars 2010 13:28
À : quattro at audifans.com
Objet : Re: 1986 goes up ski jumper ramp

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:40:18 -0700, Peter Golledge wrote:

>Nah they didn't need the cables to pull it up the slope. I've run a type 44
>up some short 30% slopes in Colorado with just studded ice tires.  Lock the
>diffs and so long as it is packed snow (not ice) up she goes.

The hill in the commercial is 37.5 DEGREES. That's 77%.

Your 30% slope is 17 degrees.

I very strongly doubt there is a tyre in this world that will achieve
that amount of friction on snow.

A good street tyre on dry asphalt will manage around 100%.
-- 
Helge
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