Bee
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- Jim
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I live on the East Coast and if I begin to off-road again more in my life, well that's a thing I don't have in spades at this exact moment in life's symphony. That doesn't mean I've lost my window browsing ability. Truth be told for my use case, on the R1 platform the 20" A/T is best or a combo road tire + winter tire rotating combo (which becomes a pain on the R1 because of wheel size complications, but I digress).
Is it me or is the one thing that's going to keep the R3 platform from making the grade among the Wrangler and Bronco crowd (beyond charging issues, especially out west over-landing) is going to be this wheel situation. How is anything going to be a serious offroader without a 3-ply chunky option? You go through tires and the lower profile, the worse it is.
Again, for me, the R1, 20" equating to the overall massive wheel size is great even if the sidewall is a "little thin" but on the R2 and R3... is it workable?
So I guess my question is this: Would an "ultimate rock crawler" R3 have 17s and lower motor output so it can have smaller brakes? I just feel like anything over 400hp is superfluous and sacrificing tread wall and 3-ply options is going to be a deal breaker from this thing being taken seriously. It already has most people going, "oh that's the smallest wheel?" on the R1x platform and they're only placated cause it's out of the box a huge wheel.
In these new products, I'm seeing a lot smaller profile without much room to flex.
Is it me or is the one thing that's going to keep the R3 platform from making the grade among the Wrangler and Bronco crowd (beyond charging issues, especially out west over-landing) is going to be this wheel situation. How is anything going to be a serious offroader without a 3-ply chunky option? You go through tires and the lower profile, the worse it is.
Again, for me, the R1, 20" equating to the overall massive wheel size is great even if the sidewall is a "little thin" but on the R2 and R3... is it workable?
So I guess my question is this: Would an "ultimate rock crawler" R3 have 17s and lower motor output so it can have smaller brakes? I just feel like anything over 400hp is superfluous and sacrificing tread wall and 3-ply options is going to be a deal breaker from this thing being taken seriously. It already has most people going, "oh that's the smallest wheel?" on the R1x platform and they're only placated cause it's out of the box a huge wheel.
In these new products, I'm seeing a lot smaller profile without much room to flex.
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