Xeno:   
      
   Of course the tire sidewalls will slowly buckle! Common sense!  They're the   
   vertical   
   component of a tire.  But what you seem to want to believe is that the only   
   part of a   
   tire that matters is that which touches the ground.  In your world, sidewalls   
   don't exist.   
   In your world, a vehicle drives by and all you see are the treads and the rims.   
      
   It doesn't work that way. A tire - all of it - and the wheel or rim it's   
   attached to, are   
   together a SYSTEM: of support, of absorption, of compliance, and of traction   
   during   
   a variety of vehicle dynamics.   
      
   And whether a fully mounted, inflated, and balanced wheel/tire combo is   
   sitting, waiting   
   to be put on a car, or is between that car and the road already, the air   
   inside places   
   pressure on ALL interior surfaces of the cavity created by tire plus rim.    
   Science!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)