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Posted: **Mon May 01, 2006 11:20 pm**

why not to use re-treads . . .

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2006 11:58 pm**

It's even scarier when a car with them fitted has a tread on a rear tyre let go in front of you and the carcase comes scooting at you not much less than the speed of light, followed by an almighty bang.

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Posted: **Tue May 02, 2006 12:31 am**

belive me that was scarey enough ,

i was following my dad he had a traylor with 3 bikes ( including mine) and it ripped the gard up and flung up the side of my bike

Posted: **Tue May 02, 2006 8:03 am**

Multiply it by about 10 when a semi's lets go.

Posted: **Tue May 02, 2006 9:36 am**

retreads are absolute crap

Posted: **Tue May 02, 2006 9:50 am**

Ah they were OK on the some of the Vals I had. Had a few let go with mixed results, sometimes enough air would stay in them for you to get to the next town to sort it, other times it would throw the car sideways at over 140 kmh (er... I mean 100

) into a heavy duty signpole in the middle of nowhere and leave you with a nice mess to clean up.

But man they were cheap.....

Posted: **Tue May 02, 2006 10:35 am**

I had one let go on the old XA coupe at about 130km/h near Braidwood. The thing fishtailed all over the road for a fair distance before I could pull it up

cleaned out the wheel well nicely though

Posted: **Wed May 03, 2006 4:00 pm**

Exact same thing happened to our trailer, but our tyres are about 10000 years old. Lucky we have high quality tiedowns

Posted: **Thu May 04, 2006 1:43 am**

lol....a mate and i were doing 160kph in or shit-box cars down a country road when we were teens, slowed down for a 40kph corner and it was then that he realised that two of his retreads had disintergated.

Thankfully they held air till he had slowed down for corner...had to use my spare and his to get him home.

Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

re treds, no no

re treds, no no