Modern Tires Ruin the Roads

Pebbles catch in the fine sipes of modern tires and are carried in the
tread. As the tire rolls, they abrade the roadways.

Earlier tire designs use coarse zig-zag treads that cannot pick up small
rocks.

Car manufacturers should specify tire tread designs that do no degrade the
roads. Only rubber compound should contact the roadways.

 

uhh... no!

 

True...they only picked up larger rocks.

I'll bet you lay awake at night dreaming up this crap.

 

You are NUTS. If you are driving in icy/snowy conditions, the finely
siped tire is a NECESSITY. If you have STUDS, that is (possibly) a
different story. Carbide studs damage the road, particularly if you
spin the tires. Nylon studs do minimal damage. Gravel stones, sand and
pebbles????? NEVER.

 

Makes you wonder what he does for a living, consider the super-accurate
speedo... sure hope no one pays him to be an analyst, of any sort.

My bet he assists in election campaigns... strong link between denial,
obfuscation, nit-picking and politics

 

Total contact of harder than pavement objects in tires = .001%

The noise you hear from block treaded tires, opposed to those with fine
tread designs is not simply incidental. Anything that generates energy -
including sound energy- indicates 'work done' in the scientific sense.

Since this involves the entire tread surface, not just the incidental
pebble in maybe one of 10 tires rolling on that track, a case could be
made that firmer, wider tread with blocks affects the surface more than
the odd pebble.

Finer siping, OTOH, provides more conformity and less abrading/scrubbing
action.

Since the whole concept is Bullshit, it will probably become a law,
eventually

 

Those modern tire provide much better all weather traction and save
lives.
By the way I seldom see pebbles stuck in the tread of my Michelin
Harmony all season tires.
What inferior tires are you referring to.

 

ROTFL!!

Ted

 

Hey, this is first rate comedy! Better than Click and Clack!

Ted

 

Sunshine and rain do more damage.

Ban the weather.

 

May be they should start building roads out of recycled rubber from tires,
then the roads could throw the stones back in retaliation.

 

I don't know where he's getting this from... IME old bias ply tire have
far more "fine sipes" than the modern radials that I currently have on
my cars (BFG T/A on one, Yoko ES100 on another, and some Goodyear
all-season POS on a third)

nate

 

Ever wonder what happens to all the rubber from the tire threads
as the tire wears out...millions and millions of tires......every day...year
after year....

 

Many think the government should pay for their health care and prescription
drugs, and as long as the roads are wearing out anyway, they should make
tires out of concrete and the roads out of rubber. Let government pay the
bill rather than the car owners. LOL

mike

 

The problem is we are the government.

--
Coasty
Remove The SPOOGE To Reply

 

Ice and road salt does far more damage to northern roads than does
tires, sun, rain and pretty much everything else put together. Only a
burning car is worse on the asphalt than ice and salt.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to southern climes.


Matt

 

dream on!

You can ELECT the guys who are gonna change things.. but if you leave
them there long enuff, they all get the disease.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/11/acute-senatitis.html

Right now, All Ohio Republican national figures.. Senate and Governor are
well beyond sell-by.

Even a half-decent opponent and 'color 'em gone'!

 

Dunno about THAT, but there's no doubt that bias plies were far more
destructive to secondary roads....

Geezers, please think back to where every curve became rutted... due to
tire resistance.

 

In my area there was a 750 foot portion of concrete built to interstate
standards that lay dormant for 25 years... blocked off, it had no
vehicular traffic, and negligible salt on it.
It only had rain and freeze/thaw.


By the time the roadway got extended, it was a broken up mess.. they had
to tear it all up and lay new concrete.

 

Tell that to those that want the government to provide all of those 'free'
services

mike