On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Andrew Grebneff wrote:

> How will they put you sideways or in a ditch? They will always grip
> FAR better than a truck tire. Unless flat!

High performance tires tend to have poorer handling in rain, don't they?
Seems like all that surface area would make them hydroplane pretty easily.

The guys with the 12" wide ghetto chrome rims on their Hondas all seem to
slide around pretty bad in poor weather, here.

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