Tyred and emotional

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I was bemoaning the fact that a £20-odd Stelvio only lasts six months
or so. And then I checked out the car - all four boots needed
replacing at a cost of about four Stelvios apiece (205/55x15V).
Obllocks.

Experience indicates these will last at most three years. So the bike
is still cheaper...

Tell me about it.
Service + MOT, 400 quid. Ker- ching.
--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

you know? said:

I was bemoaning the fact that a £20-odd Stelvio only lasts six months
or so. And then I checked out the car - all four boots needed

Quoted message said:

at a cost of about four Stelvios apiece

Bad luck. Which is how much I paid for my F reg Astra Estate. Pretty
cool eh? Had it four years with zero probs and the MOT costs about 40
quid each time for matey to switch his welder on. It's the golden age
of car ownership for me.

Quoted message said:

Experience indicates these will last at most three years. So the bike
is still cheaper...

Not so with me, costs me more to build my recumbent! 3 chains, 9sp
cassette, bar-end shifters, new blocks, 4 scrap bikes and a bit of
plywood = Astra motor! And about 400 hours of labour! Worth it though.

Those Stelvio tyres - are they really that much faster than
alternatives? I bought two cheapo 20" Haro tyres on Ebay for 2 quid
[+ 6 quid postage :-], just to get me on the road, but I haven't been
out that much to wear them out yet to try anything else.

Might even get out tomorrow.

Garry

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:51:42 +0000, garryb
<[email protected]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I was bemoaning the fact that a £20-odd Stelvio only lasts six months
or so. And then I checked out the car - all four boots needed
at a cost of about four Stelvios apiece

Quoted message said:

Bad luck. Which is how much I paid for my F reg Astra Estate. Pretty
cool eh? Had it four years with zero probs and the MOT costs about 40
quid each time for matey to switch his welder on. It's the golden age
of car ownership for me.

Yeah, but I bet your cruise control, climate control, electrically
adjusted and heated leather seats with position memories, CD player,
computer, automatic gearbox and turbo don't work as well as mine ;-)

Quoted message said:

Those Stelvio tyres - are they really that much faster than
alternatives?

In my experience, yes. My average speed increased by a shade over
1mph compared with Vredestein s'licks.

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

Just zis Guy said:

I was bemoaning the fact that a £20-odd Stelvio only lasts six months
or so. And then I checked out the car - all four boots needed
replacing at a cost of about four Stelvios apiece (205/55x15V).
Obllocks.

Experience indicates these will last at most three years. So the bike
is still cheaper...

If you were running Dugast tubs (no, I don't) you wouldn't say that!
Approx £110 each for the "Paris-Roubaix" version...

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

I was bemoaning the fact that a £20-odd Stelvio only lasts six months
or so. And then I checked out the car - all four boots needed
replacing at a cost of about four Stelvios apiece (205/55x15V).

In my younger and wilder days when I drove a high powered car, the per
annum tyre bill was greater than the per annum petrol bill... a fact
that you don't really think about until you add it up.

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[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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