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Subject: Re: [OM] Jeepless in Seattle
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:50:58 +0100
I recognise that feeling, Rick: motorbike tyres on tramlines or on the road 
surfaces which have been top-scraped before re-surfacing.

Chris

> On 3 Jul 2016, at 13:48, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Whatever you call it , the scary result is familiar to those  who have
> ridden motorcycles, or bikes on older city streets.
> Enough to drive you crackers, eh?
> 
> On Jul 3, 2016 6:54 AM, "ChrisB" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Indeed, Ding Ding Moose :-)
>> 
>> It refers in particular to runflat tyres which have a stiffer shoulder
> than conventional radial tyres.  But I was advised several years ago to
> over-inflate them to reduce that tendency and to even the wear across the
> tread.
>> 
>> I felt sure, Rick, that the colonists would have a word like that, if
> indeed it hadn’t originated Over There.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>> On 3 Jul 16, at 05:45, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 7/2/2016 7:06 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>>> Oh GOODY!
>>>> 
>>>> Another phrase for the colonists to look up: tramline, eh?
>>> 
>>> I imagine it refers to a tendency of the tires to be "caught" by sharp
> unevennesses in the street, and trying to follow them, as a tram is forced
> to a path by its rails.
> 

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