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Originally Posted by Frank Reiner
Re: Stiffness
Although the area of the 16.5mm bar is 30% greater than the 14.5mm bar, torsional stiffness varies as the 4th power of the diameter. Hence, the 16.5 bar has a stiffness that is 1.677 times that of the 14.5 bar!
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Thanks, Frank. I hoped someone would have the real info. Mechanical was not my type of engineering!
Jeremy
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