snow tire question

[Grant Lenahan]

Yea, I agree with both Taka's and greg's points.
Thye jury is in :-)
On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:01 PM, thejimrose wrote:

> thanks greg, you're correct that i hadn't considered the heat cycling
> but had considered the age of the tires. the m2's only have 5k tops.
> loads of life left still.
>
> On 1/29/07, Greg Smith <lifeisabirdie at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Jim
>>
>> I would caution you against mixing 2 Alpin with the m2 tires. You are
>> overlooking or have not mentioned the age of the m2 tires. Once they 
>> start
>> heat cycling, the tread rubber gradually hardens up. If you took a 
>> set of 4
>> new tires and used 2 of them for a few weeks and then stored all 4 
>> tires
>> away; 2 that were used along with the 2 unused ones; after 2 years 
>> you would
>> see, more correctly feel a difference in how pliable the tread rubber 
>> is.
>> That is the point; unless these m2 tires are fresh this season; the 
>> grip
>> difference to the other 2 new Alpins would be too great.  One axle 
>> will have
>> great grip and the other less so.  You are either setting yourself up 
>> for a
>> lot of oversteer or understeer when you are on slick surfaces.
>>
>> Get a matched set of tires. I've ice raced and run ice trials for 30 
>> years;
>> so I have a little experience with snow tires.
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