Re: Shaving tires WAS: Re: tire rotation

["Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>]

If I remember correctly, most tires (racing slicks anyway) are made for more
than one type of racing.  Once the tire is purchased, the user decides how
the tire needs to be setup for the particular racing he does.  HTH!

Dave

>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> I wrote:
> > > my money conservative
> > > mind always tells me that you can't make a tire last longer by
> > > reducing the amount of rubber it has.
> > >
>
> Then Scott wrote:
> > You certainly can when running a full-depth tire starts to get chunks
> ripped
> > out of it because of the beating that it is getting!
>
> And that brings up my other thought which I forgot to state the first
> time...If race tires will last longer when they are shaved, why the heck
> don't the manufacturers make them with a shorter tread? I'm sure they know
> how they are being used, so why wouldn't they make them with less rubber
on
> them already. After all, shouldn't that even save the tire manufacturer
> money...using less materials? That's what I really don't understand. Why
is
> it that the tires *need* to be shaved?
>
> -- Craig
>
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>
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