Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] Going down the road feeling good
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:40:25 +0100
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What they do with truck tires in Africa is re-tread them, but only as
camouflage, not as functional tires.

Then one blows up on you at high speed. Happened to us, front wheel of
a bus going over a bridge. Dangerous.

I'll dig out the negatives. It was scary.

Might be getting to old for this.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> 
> wrote:
>
>> Man, there were a lot of treads left on that tire to be used as a
>> plaything in Africa :-)
>>
>> I recognize it so well.
>>
>
> Yes, I remember when a certain son of mine (very responsible, now that he 
> is
> grown) took a curve too fast and damaged nearly every body surface on our
> Honda Civic. ?None of the six (YIKES!) kids inside were injured.
>
> It came just short of being a total; thank goodness, as I had just that 
> week
> put four new tires and new shocks on it. ?Maybe that's what kept it from
> being a total!
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
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