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Re: g-Force wear report

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Subject: Re: g-Force wear report
From: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:29:18 -0400 (EDT)
Howdy,

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, washburn wrote:
> > I've never heard of anyone running winning national times that gets that
> > kinda life outta their tires in the stock and sp class (not that I run
> > winning national times by any means).  If you're gonna run the R tires,
> > you might wanna plan on at least two sets a year and that'll only work
> > with Kumhos and Toyo's from what I've heard.
> > 
> I don't know if I would call my times "national winning", but they have
> been close at times.  I have run a fairly busy season this year taking
> in a couple of tours, a couple of Pro's, and a bunch of local stuff on
> all sorts of surfaces.  Not counting runs exactly, but I'm guessing 70
> to 90 with some of them in the 120 second range. (Thanks MAC!) I just
> ordered only my second set of front tires for Nationals, and will run my
> original set of g-Forces at this weekends Divisional in Milwaukee.  I'm
> on the first set of rears, and when I flip them, they will probably go
> most of next year too. YMMV obviously.

Well, if you're getting that kinda mileage outta your tires, you must not
be pushing it out there.... :-)

That's _awesome_ tire wear, certainly much different from my experience
and what I've heard of others. What're you running for pressures,
alignment, and struts?

Mark


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