On Saturday 23 May 2009, Joerg wrote: >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.
Probably was. ISTR I was making about $90/week back then. So I made those 2 tires run for 3 seasons worth of some dirt, some blacktop racing, never for more than a case of pop to the winners. But it was the ultimate fun for me at the time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user