I agree with you bgc. I live in GA, so luckily most of our roads are tame enough. I will say the thing that has me on the fence about going larger are two events: the first is when I had my first service at the dealer, I was asking the service guy technical questions about my car, and his comment was "yeah, we don't see these things that often back here. Most people bring them in for popped beads, but that's only on the 20's, so you should be good". Interesting....Second, wife and I went to a date back in January in Downtown Atlanta. Trying to find the restaurant, and going uphill, I completely missed the giant pothole in the middle of the road, and hit the right front tire square in it. I was convinced that I had blown the tire just by the loud impact. Amazingly, after jumping out of the car and eyeing this tire with fear, nothing. Not even a deformed bulge. I've inspected it more than once since that night, and nothing. I count myself as extremely lucky, but I feel with a larger diameter, it would have surely exploded. My hats off to you gents who risk the blowouts for the awesome look. I wish I could get there, and hopefully some day soon, I will.