[Shotimes] RE: (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?

[Ron Porter]

That's OK. I got the deal on the Icebears, and right as they finished the
install a couple of hours ago, the snow started!!

I can see how they do tonight.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: CLARE ALLENBY [mailto:allenby7@sympatico.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:33 PM
To: ronporter@prodigy.net; shotimes@autox.team.net; v8sho@v8sho.com;
techsho@topica.com
Subject: RE: (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?


you can buy greendiamonds online from greendiamondtire.com

{now ya tell me.. )

>From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
>To: "'Shotimes'" <shotimes@autox.team.net>,"'V8List SHO'" 
><v8sho@v8sho.com>,"'SHO Tech'" <techsho@topica.com>
>Subject: RE: (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?
>Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:06:03 -0500
>
>Prior to finding this deal I was leaning toward the Nokian RSI or the
>Blizzak WS-50.
>
>Personally, I don't care about dry performance if I buy snow tires. If I
>feel that I will be in enough snow to matter (like this winter in northern
>MI with lake-effect), I want great snow tires. I can put up with wobbly
>handling in the dry if they save my butt in the bad stuff.
>
>That's part of the reason that I eliminated the Blizzak LM series from
>consideration. They sound like great-performing tires in the dry, but they
>give up snow performance. That's also what the Nokian WR seems to be. If I
>were staying in the Detroit area all winter, the LM & WR-type performance
>winter tires would work fine (but then, if I was going to be here all 
>winter
>I would stay with the a/s tires).
>
>The tire that interests me is the Green Diamond. If they sold it around
>here, I could have considered it, as ice is almost more of an issue than
>snow (mostly in the early winter, like last week, and late in the season
>like in April)
>
>I picked up the Icebears yesterday, and I'll get them on today or tomorrow.
>We have some snow coming, so we'll see how they do.
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul L Fisher [mailto:sho@paul-fisher.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:07 PM
>To: 'Ron Porter'; 'Shotimes'; 'V8List SHO'; 'SHO Tech'
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?
>
>Yeah, Direcway finally let me in later in the day. For a high-performance
>snow tire I would go with the Nokian WR's. The perform in the dry better
>than the Blizzak LM-22's which is Bridgestone's 'performance' snow tire but
>they perform as good or better than the WS-50's in the snow. I was 
>extremely
>impressed this past week with them on my 540.
>
>The Nokian RSI's kicked the WR's ass in the snow but they are definitely 
>not
>performance tires in the dry.
>
>
>Paul L Fisher
>
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of Ron Porter
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:32 PM
>To: Shotimes; V8List SHO; SHO Tech
>Subject: [Shotimes] (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?
>
>I'm picking up a set of these tonight for a good price off Craigslist:
>
>http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?tirebrand=Hankook&tiremodel=Icebear+W300
>
>http://www.hankooktireusa.com/products_view_info.asp?Item_ID=28&CatID=6
>
>They sound pretty good WRT construction. I was going to go with Blizzak
>WS-50s, as the other performance-type snow tires seem to admit (in their
>marketing stuff) that you sacrifice a bit of snow performance to get the
>higher speed ratings. These look good with the different inner & outer 
>tread
>patterns (much like the Michelin Pilot Exalto PE2s that I run in the
>summer), as well as the silica construction.
>
>http://www.snowtire.info/ doesn't even have anything on them (on a side
>note, I saw your two reviews, Paul F.!!).
>
>Anyone have any experience with these, or know anyone who has??
>
>Ron
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