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Mithras said:
A lot of it depends on HOW you hold the wheel too.
Many people hold the wheel in a clench with their fingers facing them too much. If you do this, you need a thinker wheel. It also hinders quick actions IMHO and allows you to hold the wheel too tight (NOT a good thing, you should hold a steering wheel like a golf club, firm but not anything close to hard).
If you hold your hands like you were reading a newspaper (thumbs facing straight up, index finders at about a 30-45 degree angle up, fingers on each hand facing each other and not your body you will find you don't need such a thick wheel as you are using a greater length of it top to bottom (getting the same amount of contact/surface area as holding it the other way with a thicker wheel). This also forces you to pull you hand down on the wheel into a turn instead of lifting your hand outside of the turn (pushing up on the wheel). Pulling the wheel into a turn versus "lifting" the wheel with the outside hand allows greater fine control and tires you out less (on a right hand turn, pull down with your right hand, the left is just along for the ride. Reverse for left turns). And remember to NEVER ever ever hook your thumbs in the wheel!