What does your day look like?

beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
They're not mind blowing but they have been acceptable. Fortunately we deal with straight lines and very little rain.

BFGs or Coopers would be great though. Bank account rarely agrees though.
Luckily Simex Centipedes are cheap and have plenty of grip. :p
 

link1896

Mr Greenfield
I’ve had shitty tires on fleet vehicles go before. Still not sure if sidewall failure or tread delaminating at 100km/h is worse. Had a partial delam in the bmw from way too much negative camber but that’s only partial. Complete delam, where the tread bugs out fully, accompanied by the massive thud, is an exciting event.


 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
They're not mind blowing but they have been acceptable. Fortunately we deal with straight lines and very little rain.

BFGs or Coopers would be great though. Bank account rarely agrees though.
My latest are Toyo Open Country AT2's, nowhere near as aggressive as I usually buy. Probably the most surprising tyre I've ever bought. Quiet, grippy on dry, wet and gravel, also decent on the occasional off road jaunt.

My last were BFG K02's, the rubber went hard on me, squeaked on corners, shit in the wet and got really noisy. Worst tyres I ever had and swapped them out before they were due.

In the past I've had Mickey Thompsons, Coopers and Dick Cepek, would definitely replace these Toyos with the same Toyos when I need them, easy on the pocket too compared to the other brands above.
 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
Yesterday was busy and chaotic, just the way I like it. So much better than sitting in a training room all day. I got to play the super hero and pat myself on the back because who else would?

Favourite scenario - I split the fridges up so booze and soft drinks are seperated, but we are expanding booze into soft drink fridge.

Me: I'm not sure all our staff aren't going to fuck that up.
Other t/l: You need to give the staff more credibility than that, they aren't that dumb.
Me: are you sure?

Later that night...same staff have stacked excess furniture across the outside of the emergency exit doors to our main space. And I'm not just talking like a couple of chairs. 25 chairs, 4 8 person trestle tables, 4 windbreakers, 2 fence trolleys, and some other random bits. FUCK ME!!!!! It's not like the signage on the doors isn't very clear. So in the rain I resolve the issue. On the plus side they did stack it all up pretty neatly.

Feeling very confident they won't confuse a highly decorative cider cans which have the smallest legally acceptable font for alcohol content hidden on them for soft drink cans.
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
Yesterday was busy and chaotic, just the way I like it. So much better than sitting in a training room all day. I got to play the super hero and pat myself on the back because who else would?

Favourite scenario - I split the fridges up so booze and soft drinks are seperated, but we are expanding booze into soft drink fridge.

Me: I'm not sure all our staff aren't going to fuck that up.
Other t/l: You need to give the staff more credibility than that, they aren't that dumb.
Me: are you sure?

Later that night...same staff have stacked excess furniture across the outside of the emergency exit doors to our main space. And I'm not just talking like a couple of chairs. 25 chairs, 4 8 person trestle tables, 4 windbreakers, 2 fence trolleys, and some other random bits. FUCK ME!!!!! It's not like the signage on the doors isn't very clear. So in the rain I resolve the issue. On the plus side they did stack it all up pretty neatly.

Feeling very confident they won't confuse a highly decorative cider cans which have the smallest legally acceptable font for alcohol content hidden on them for soft drink cans.
You need to micro manage a bit harder Poodles.
 

link1896

Mr Greenfield
Did a puncture repair on a friends Honda Civic. Tires have been on there since they bought it second hand in 2017

How the fuck this wear on the outer sidewalls happened I’ll never know. Directional tires.

 

Mattyp

Cows go boing
Did a puncture repair on a friends Honda Civic. Tires have been on there since they bought it second hand in 2017

How the fuck this wear on the outer sidewalls happened I’ll never know. Directional tires.

I had a Ford Escort with wide offset minilites that would rub the wheelarches over big bumps and wear the sidewalls like that....
 

Haakon

Keeps on digging
Gave my lad his first driving lesson yesterday. He'll be 14 in November, so I decided it was well and truly time for him to learn the intricacies of all our vehicles and machinery.

He absolutely aced it.

Driving around a 30acre property we manage. Started in the farm buggy, a manual Daihatsu traytop. Then progressed to my rodeo, complete with telstra service box, making vision tricky for the uninitiated.

He's all excited now, looking forward to a day of slashing on Saturday.
Nice, a good age to get started :) Paddock bashers are awesome for this. I think I was learning about opposite lock power sliding in the mud by the time I was that age ;)
 

beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Did a puncture repair on a friends Honda Civic. Tires have been on there since they bought it second hand in 2017

How the fuck this wear on the outer sidewalls happened I’ll never know. Directional tires.

It’s from driving it while semi-flat (One of my tyres has the same). I gingerly drove maybe 2km with a very low pressure (but not totally flat) tyre, and the same thing occurred. My guess is that either the tread ends up sitting beneath the sidewall, or the tyre folding/rubbing on itself while turning.
 

Chriso_29er

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Did a puncture repair on a friends Honda Civic. Tires have been on there since they bought it second hand in 2017

How the fuck this wear on the outer sidewalls happened I’ll never know. Directional tires.

Left hand side?
Parking by feel against a gutter.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
Did a puncture repair on a friends Honda Civic. Tires have been on there since they bought it second hand in 2017

How the fuck this wear on the outer sidewalls happened I’ll never know. Directional tires.

I use the sidewalls on the R888Rs.
 

link1896

Mr Greenfield
Tires I’ve seen driven absolutely flat never had a scalloped section out of the side wall, that’s a new one on me. This band is 12mm wide. It has melted the rubber and it’s wavy like the tread of a race slick is after super hard braking.

Tire is on front right.

I’m taking it to get new tires in a week or two anyway.


Thanks gents
 
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