Posted by Vito on November 30, 2009, 7:59 am
| I seen vids of it cornering from a camera at the bottom of a
| M/cycle, .the sidewalls flatten as you turn...no skids, which means that
car
| tyres can used if there is nothing else on the planet.
|
This is true. Guys a bit older than I tell of using car tires during ww2
when bike tires were unobtanium. A preferred alternative was lacing treads
from blown tires over good tires using bailing wire. Myself, I'll stick to
motorcycle tires.
Posted by TOG@Toil on November 30, 2009, 9:23 am
> | I seen vids of it cornering from a camera at the bottom of a
> | M/cycle, .the sidewalls flatten as you turn...no skids, which means that
> car
> | tyres can used if there is nothing else on the planet.
> |
> This is true. Guys a bit older than I tell of using car tires during ww2
> when bike tires were unobtanium. A preferred alternative was lacing treads
> from blown tires over good tires using bailing wire. Myself, I'll stick to
> motorcycle tires.
Actually, car tyres back then would probably have done a better job
than car tyres do today.
Radial tyres hadn't appeared on cars then (didn't make it until the
1950s, IIRC), so they'd all have been crossplies, with reasonably
stiff sidewalls.
Angles of lean wouldn't have been anywhere near as extreme then:
Harley owners would have felt quite at home ;-)
The only problem would still have been the tread contact issue, but
then motorcycle tyres of the era were probably evil things in their
own right.
Posted by turby on November 30, 2009, 11:35 am
> | I seen vids of it cornering from a camera at the bottom of a
> | M/cycle, .the sidewalls flatten as you turn...no skids, which means that
> car
> | tyres can used if there is nothing else on the planet.
> |
> This is true. Guys a bit older than I tell of using car tires during ww2
> when bike tires were unobtanium. A preferred alternative was lacing treads
> from blown tires over good tires using bailing wire. Myself, I'll stick to
> motorcycle tires.
So I'm riding down the street yesterday and I see an SUV in front of
me. It has a spare tire mounted on the back door. But something's
funny about the spare tire. It has threads all around the sidewall.
And then I realize it isn't just threads, the entire sidewall is
missing. It's as though the tire was used as a bumper on a tugboat for
a few years. Or, more likely, dragged on its side down the road a few
miles. I wondered how long it had been like that and how long it would
stay. Prolly til the owner had a flat and needed it.
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> | M/cycle, .the sidewalls flatten as you turn...no skids, which means that
> car
> | tyres can used if there is nothing else on the planet.
> |
> This is true. Guys a bit older than I tell of using car tires during ww2
> when bike tires were unobtanium. A preferred alternative was lacing treads
> from blown tires over good tires using bailing wire. Myself, I'll stick to
> motorcycle tires.