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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