quasi
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Date: June 27, 2012 11:53AM
Are you the guy that took out the oil pan on my Prelude?
BlahX3
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Date: June 27, 2012 04:45PM
Looks horrible. Was that from your rig?
fossil_digger
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Date: June 27, 2012 04:53PM
that is not a truck tire Blurf.
BlahX3
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Date: June 27, 2012 07:53PM
What kind of tire is it?
fossil_digger
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Date: June 27, 2012 08:35PM
motorcycle?
BlahX3
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Date: June 27, 2012 08:45PM
That's what I started thinking but with all the strange truck tires, well, strange tires in general, I can't tell anymore and I am certainly no expert on that stuff anyway.
fossil_digger
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Date: June 27, 2012 10:08PM
it could be an antique truck tire...i guess, but doubt with the construction of the tire.
GAK67
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Date: June 27, 2012 10:38PM
Given the knobs left on it, the width, the apparent circumference, and the construction, my guess is that it's an off-road tyre for a motorbike.
fossil_digger
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Date: June 28, 2012 02:00AM
^^ what he said ^^
pro_junior
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Date: June 28, 2012 06:07AM
that in fact was one of my drive tires...took a quarter fender with it...and the kia soul that was just behind me in the left lane mysteriously disappeared...
pro_junior
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Date: June 28, 2012 06:09AM
you may have been thrown off by the floor jack in the pic, it's much larger than your standard garage model that you get at sears...
fossil_digger
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Date: June 28, 2012 01:21PM
see? i told you guys.
BlahX3
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Date: June 28, 2012 02:03PM
You are so full of shit, Skidmore.
Jeez, PJ, what causes such a massive failure like that? I hope the Kia person wasn't hurt.
pro_junior
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Date: July 01, 2012 07:25AM
had another blowout today, same axle - opposite side...
these tires are re-caps so when you factor high heat and high speed they are prone to blowout
those strips of rubber you see on the side of the highway are the tread portion...on the cb they are called 'gators'
quasi
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Date: July 01, 2012 09:53AM
Good name for 'em 'cause from a distance if they're layin' flat they look like gators. And sometimes they bite.
BlahX3
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Date: July 01, 2012 12:16PM
I had heard that a lot of them are re-caps but I thought I'd ask someone who knows.
quasi
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Date: July 01, 2012 06:45PM
My house is about a mile from Interstate 75 and while the traffic noise is dampened by a dense forest in between, a few times over the years (I predate that stretch of road as a matter of fact) I've heard the blast of an exploding truck tire. And then there was the time one of the guys at work accidently stabbed a truck tire with the forklift about 30 meters from where I was standing. Loud.
BlahX3
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Date: July 01, 2012 10:57PM
You should hear a B-52 tire blow out.
quasi
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Date: July 02, 2012 12:27AM
Bet that happens pretty often.
I grew up watching B-52s fly over our house with their landing gear down at somewhere between 500 and 1000 feet on approach to Wright Patterson AFB. You couldn't hear a damn thing and they played hell with TV reception (on all three channels) when they were going over.
BlahX3
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Date: July 02, 2012 01:40AM
When I was in the Navy at Subic Bay, PI there were B-52s landing on the airstrip frequently and I swear to God every damn one of them blew a fucking tire. The only thing I ever heard that was possibly louder was an F-8 hitting the single-stage afterburner.
