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Larger diameter tires won't necessarily help with potholes or badly maintained roads. All things else being similar, a tire that has bigger sidewalls will absorb the impact of driving over a pothole better than one with a smaller profile. So find a small tire with big sidewalls and you should be better off.

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> Larger diameter tires won't necessarily help with potholes or badly maintained roads.

It necessarily does. Why are you even arguing this point? There's plenty of references that bigger wheels handle the same size obstruction (which includes potholes) much better.

Tires are more complicated than a single variable. A large diameter tire with a small sidewall does not necessarily perform better than a smaller diameter tire with a large sidewall. The problem with the word "big" is where the tire is big matters and that seems to have been lost in translation.

Insufficient clearance above a pothole absolutely will destroy one of these things. It depends on infrastructure as well.

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