Compact Spares

[Rave Racer]

            That's right!  Us Canucks are a rowdy buncha SOBs.  So don't
piss us off!  Or we'll ....   we'll....    shake our fists at you, and ....
and  glare really, really hard!
        Have a nice day.

>     Yeah it's true that they are rarely needed, but when they are needed
> it's like heaven's donut!  I had a run in with some candian country boys
one
> fine night; they tried to kill my friend and I by attempting to force us
off
> the road into a ditch in the middle of no where.  Luckily the 80 had
enough
> spunk to allow me to pull the scariest u-turn of my life, a two wheeler.
At
> that moment one of my snow tires started to split for the shear force on
it
> because of the high speed u-turn.  The canadians turned around and gave
> chase, but the 80 kicked serious tail and got up to 100mph ASAP, their
Ford
> Explorer couldn't match it, thank god.  Shortly after that, maybe a mile
> away, the tire went fully flat.  My friend and I changed that tire fast
than
> a pit crew in a Nascar race.  The donut had 10psi in it of course, so we
> road on that for 5 miles until we found our friends and a pump at a truck
> stop.  I nearly ate through the sidewall driving 5 miles, but man was that
> donut a life saver, plus I now check the pressure twice a year, just in
> case!
>