On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, John Rodgers wrote: > For tires - not much you could do. The would get so cold and stiff > that when you started down the road the flat side next to the ground > would remain flat. So your had four tires with flat spots going > whumpity. wheumpity, whumpity, whumpity down the road, shaking your > teeth out until friction warmed the tire sufficiently to make the tire > flexible. > > John Rodgers Of course, that tire thing was true even in southern climes back in the day, when we had nylon cord tires. I remember it from Texas. Not many folks on here remember nylon cord tires. I even remember when nylon cord tires were considered a great improvement from the older cotton and rayon corded tires. Those tires were bias ply, too. David |
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