MULLEY wrote:
First of all I should tell you about my car. It is a Renaultsport Megane 225 F1 Team and it is a superb piece of machinery.
Erm, see this says it all right? You clearly cannot believe a word this dude is saying, he thinks a Toilet is a superb piece of machinary, whereas we all know that Renaults are shit, and anything bolted to or in any way connected with said Renault will also be shit, therefore his tyres are shit, and his ability to judge his tyres is also shit.
Equally the dude states that the name of thetyre may be the same, but the whole construction of the tyre is different, so it's not like for like is it?
And again, they were fitted to a Renault, therefore, shit.
Mulley wrote:David, i did read your explanation about tyre noise, i just disagree with your explanation as the noise is telling you that its losing grip as its starting to slide, hence the noise, if there was more grip it would be silent as there is no sliding.
Erm, thats not the case, nor what David said...
Mulley wrote: but again you have to be going at some rate of knots to start aquaplaning in the 1st place.
Ooh, dunno about that so much, I've had some fairly hairy moments even at low speed on fairly new Michelins. Dont use Michy's anymore..
Mulley wrote:The bit about motorsport is of course MARKETING, who wouldnt want to say that some of the technology in their race tyres is also in your road tyres, whether thats actually true or not i've no idea,
Ok, to be a pedant for mo, you've rather contradicted yourself there a touch.. It's actually not just marketing, the amount of technical stuff that goes in to designing tyres these days is quite a bit more than it used to be, and motorsprt gave the biggest advances in road tyre technology.
Yes, race tyres are designed for a job, as are road tyres, those two jobs are fundamentally different,although forever intertwined.
I mean, you wouldn't imediatley link a frying pan and a space shuttle, but the technology from one made the other non stick. Which isn't really what you want in a tyre......