Joe:
yeah, right.
It's nice when a record-holder can be humble, but I don't think many on the list
believe that "stupid" people are likely to set land speed records these days in
classes where others are competing. Of course, and there are several different
KINDS of "smarts" on the salt these days! And bike records do take cahones as
well as cabezas.
Russ
Joe Amo wrote:
> Yes, stock oem, Dunlop Sportmax's
>
> Nothing I run is as good or as fast
> as what is available, plus I am stupid,
> see I am going for one of those
> "most improved" awards, sandbagging
> but unintentionally, evidentally
>
> Joe :)
>
> Clay, Dale wrote:
>
> >Good info, Joe. Don't you use Dunlops?
> >
> >Dale C.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Amo [mailto:jkamo@rap.midco.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:34 PM
> > To: rtmack
> > Cc: landspeedracer; John Szalay;
> >land-speed@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Tech Questions
> >
> > RT, this isnt the answer you requested but....
> > is their a particular reason you are going to
> > pursue shaving tires, when a ZR rated tire
> > has been shown to work great in the 225mph
> > range, perhaps you are shooting beyond this speed??
> > We use OEM ZR rated tire on our 222+ mph
> > runs, original stock tire, 22,000 miles + on it,
> >
> > and one of the fastest ever on two wheels who
> > has run shaved and ZR wants me to find him another
> > ZR like mine, after his 20 years plus of running for speed
> > and inspecting tires, he is convinced that the ZR rated
> >tires
> > are the way to go.
> >
> > In addition one of our motorcycle vets spoke with with
> > an engineer at one of the top bike tire makers about what
> > they would recommend for sustained land speed running
> > and they offered that the best tire for our uses
> > is a bone stock OEM zr tire like is on the Hayabusa, as it
> > would have better integrity for our purposes than the tire
> >they
> > spec for 500 GP roadracing
> >
> > Joe :)
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