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Re: [ST] Plugged Tires, Final Answer
- Subject: Re: [ST] Plugged Tires, Final Answer
- From: simonb@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:23:38 +0100
Quoting STeve Duncan <xhippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> Ok, this is my last word on this subject, so here goes.
Promise? Even if I wind you up?
> Does anyone think that a plugged tire is "just as good" as a new tire?
No. But very near [1]
> Why on earth would anyone take a chance with a tire that has been
> compromised?
Has it been compromised? To a certain extent yes but not enough that it makes
any real difference. There more difference between a worn out tyre and a new
one.
> I don't get it. Save a few bucks? You are in the wrong
> sport. Plugged tires are "compromised" They no longer meet the speed
> rating they were built to.
Irrelavent as long as you keep to the speed limits.
> Ask any expert, ANY expert. Check any tire
> manufacturer's website. You will not find anyone with technical knowledge
> for motorcycle tire technology recommending riding on a plugged tire.
They will all recomend fitting a new set of their own brand of tyre, what a
suprise. With the upsurge of litigation due to the "blame culture" spreading
from the States I'm suprised motorcycles are still legal.
> Tire technology is an exact science, our tires are built to exacting
> specifications for a very good reason. I hear all the rhetoric about this
> tire and that tire in comparisons and we split hairs over which gives better
> traction in the wet, in the corners, which has better mileage.
> Ad infinitum. And now all the same folks are saying, ah hell, stick a plug >
in it, it'll be "OK"
>
> If you people are gonna argue the merits of rubber compounds and thread
> patterns, FOR YEARS, and then turn around and tell me, ahh go ahead punch a
> hole in the mutherfucker it's all good, all I can say is..........
>
> Bullshit. Hypocritical.
[1] To my mind I've always considered the fact that a slow puncture due to the
leaking of a tyre plug is less of a compromise than the sudden deflation of an
unpluged tyre due to a puncture. So in reality there is very little further
risk as long as the new design envelope is followed.
--
SimonB
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