Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 22 May 2009, Joerg wrote: > >> I'll second that. Did it in Spain but the track owner from whom I also >> rented the go-kart didn't want me on there anymore after my power-slides >> blew out the 2nd tire (including some smoke plumes). They must be rather >> expensive. > > 40 years ago, those slicks were about a $30 bill ea. So today, probably $75, > 90 maybe? I haven't kept up. Shame on me. But I never blew one. My only > failures were related to spinning the wheel in them, peeling the valve core > out of the innertube. >
I don't know much about tires but what happened was that while the surface seemed to smoke the blow-outs happened on the sides of the tires. Both times it was the right rear. And in Spain $30 back then was a whole lotta dough. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user