Begin forwarded message:
> From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
> Date: June 11, 2006 9:55:30 AM MDT
> To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> Cc: lsr list autox <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Big Rig Tires non-lsr
>
> Here's three quick links I found:
>
> http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051222/AUTO01/
> 512220368/1148
>
> http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/archiv/presseinfos/pflege.zv.fhg.de/
> english/press/pi/pi2003/06/rn_t3.html
>
>
> BIG RIGS, BIGGER TIRES
>
> Source: JIM DAVENPORT, ASSOCIATED PRESS
> Take a closer look at some of the 18-wheelers rolling down the
> nation's roads lately and you might notice something missing: eight
> wheels.. Some truckers are converting to wider tires that let them
> replace dual tires with single tires, turning their rigs into
> 10-wheelers to reap fuel and weight savings. The new tires are wide
> enough to make a hot-rodder happy. And they're drawing stares on and
> off the highway.. People ask Jim Smith questions about the expensive,
>
> Published on December 22, 2005, Page 4D, Charlotte Observer, The (NC)
>
> Apparently they have been around for some time. Michelin is a big
> booster. Claims of better fuel mileage and lighter tire/wheel weight
> with the wide aluminum wheels which means less unsprung weight are the
> driving forces.
>
> Wes
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Dick J wrote:
>
>> I was out on the interstate for the first time in about a month
>> yesterday. I was surprised when a big, shiny big rig passed, and I
>> realized it was a fourteen wheeler, not an eighteen wheeler. The two
>> driving axles, rather than having traditional dual wheels, had
>> monster ultra low profile, very wide single wheels. They looked like
>> giant Corvette tires in about a forty series. This was the first
>> truck I'd seen outfitted like this.
>>
>> Are these tires more common out west or anywhere else in the
>> country? I guess they are what's to come. I wonder how much those
>> four rear driving tires and their giant alloy wheels cost?
>>
>> DickJ
>> In East Texas
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