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I'm having issues wrapping my head around that too jimbo. Everythinng I learned from all of my statics and physics classes in college dictate that if you increase the surface area that a force is put upon, then the force should be decreased for any given area compared to the original smaller area. So you would think having a wider tire would distribute the force across a larger area, in essence putting less wear per unit of area compared to the smaller tire. I would think this in turn would permit for longer tire life since it would be putting less force on the area.
However I'm not a mechanical engineer by training, I just had to take a lot of their classes to be ready for the PE-Exam. There might be some "left hand rule" for tires I don't know about that dictates these types of things.
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