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I suspect Mike's tongue was firmly planted in his cheek, but it does betray the fact that not everything that seems like it would be so is in fact so.

It's like the contact patch of wide tires. Everybody knows that wider tires equal a bigger contact patch. Except that all else being equal on the vehicle, this is not so. Wider tires change the shape of the contact patch, and therefore the rolling resistance and cornering characteristics, but not the size of the contact patch (which is shorter front to back and wider perpendicular to the front/back of the vehicle).

Intuition is not a very good guide.

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