Alpiners,
Just a comment with my own experiences with Michelins and newer tires. All
manufacturers make tires with different speed ratings and there is a trade
off here. If you want a tire with long mileage guarantee, it will not be
rated for high speed driving and by high speed driving I mean 165 km/hr or
about 100 mph. If you buy a new Mercedes as my father did about 7 years
ago, it came with high speed rated Michelins and we only got 25,000 km out
of them as they are a very soft rubber (sticky) and made for high speed
cornering. If you want a tire that will give you long mileage, then you
will get a harder rubber and less cornering ability and not rated for high
speed driving. By high speed driving I am referring to Autobahn type speeds
not the lower speeds you normally see in North America.
My $0.02 worth, = $0.0125 Can.
Regards,
Bob
At 06:25 PM 5/26/99 -0400, CANISDOG(at)aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 5/26/1999 11:46:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>ian(at)sunbeamalpine.org writes:
>
><< Well...as you all know, I suffered a blow out with the original Michelin
> "X" 5.90-13 tires >>
>
>Personally, I have never liked Michelin tires, there never last. I quit
>buying them years ago. You should check out a different tire, Toyo, etc..
>
>Paul
>Colorado
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Robert (Bob) A.C. Hamilton, Waverley, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Man of Many Sunbeams - Alpine, Drophead and Saloon 1953-1954
Home Page: http://www.navnet.net/~hamilton/index.html
E-Mail: hamilton(at)cast.navnet.net
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