> Camping, exploring and adventures following questionable roads to > unknown destinations. That's it, Larry. As I posted on a tire thread in December, 2001, after coming back from Baja with Mark Drillock: > It occurred to me what a disaster a blowout could be and what a pain > a flat would be. If you were stranded 100+ miles from the nearest town > because you had bought cheap tires, you'd give a lot to turn the clock > back and buy better tires! Here's a stretch of road that made me think that: http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/Baja/pix/roll4dx-4a.jpg And this is near-perfect Baja road, just near nowhere! Here's another one on the Utah-Nevada border about 100 miles from nowhere: http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/Oct2001/Oct01/roll5dx-26a.jpg In places like these, cheap tires are expensive! Richard A Jones Boulder, Colorado |
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