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Hillsy, thanks for clarifying. I was not there. It has assumed a greater significance. "According to David Lee Roth, this was listed in the technical portion of the contract not because the band wanted to make capricious demands of the venue, but rather as a test of whether the venue had...

My error. Smarties vs M&Ms. It is a "telltale". It's like putting a hair on the carpet. If its still there after maid service, what does it mean? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell-tale A tell-tale or telltale is an indicator, signal, or sign that conveys the status of a situation, mechanism, or...

I remain unsure of the actual relevance of mounting unidirectional tires. It does seem consumers review mounting of directional tires as a check on the tire installers attention to quality. They typically have little visual indication if the tire is properly balanced or otherwise mounted. This...

Thanks for the reference. I scanned the work and found the following. "The only reason that grooves exist in a tread is to aid traction in the presence of contaminants like water, snow, mud, ice, etc. If it weren’t for road surface contaminants, a tread pattern would be unnecessary and no one...

Not to derail the thread but it was brought up elsewhere and dealt with extensively. Darkside tech: using car tires on a motorcycle rim http://goldwingdocs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=15560

AprillliaBill Good that you didn't let her take it home. I wonder if the tech messed up more than the direction of rotation? It would be a good coverup to dismiss faulty installation and blame it in contrary rotation.

deviant Thanks. In your experience as an engineer in the tire company, do you have any information to suggest that tire internal construction has a unidirectional significance? I was not able to find any information to support that possibility. I think treads are attached to the carcass...

japsche No, I did this because I suspect directional tires are a sales pitch with no advantage over nondirectional tires and do not have a solid rationale for their use. As noted above there is no measurable disadvantage to mounting ( an automobile tire) in reverse direction...

Mounting directional tread tires. In brief, upon discovering a tire mounted in reverse to prescribed rotation what should one do? This raises the salient question what does directional tread actually do? Note, this is not a thread about off road, agriculatrual or asymmetric tire construction...

Incredible. I just drooled all over my shirt. "Epimetheus", the being in whom thought follows production, represents nature in the sense of materialism, according to which thought comes later than thoughtless bodies and their thoughtless motions. Wikipedia

Took me three days to read this and another three to take it in. I'll never get it all. I am not worthy.

http://www.sidecar.com/Files/SC%20Manual.pdf Stumbled across this. Hope it adds to the thread.

But we need to decorate.

Ramps, we don't need no ramps....

A very long term project gets a rolling stand with the, in this case, the fromt end damage accessible.