Nice to hear from you Rocky, and good to hear that you've got a driver's
licence!!

Sadly, I've never driven on a Les Schwab tire that I liked.

That being said, I see that they carry Hakkapeliitta's which are great
tires.  :-)

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>wrote:

> Now that we've moved to Bend, Oregon, we are looking ahead to when, not
> many months from now, we will need to give our cars new shoes. Mrs
> Squirrel is still without car since her Volvo sedan's computer registered
> that the transmission was due to fail. so we sold it. In the meantime,
> she's putting around town in Mellow Yellow (my 84 Westy).
>
> We're from SoCal where that white stuff that falls from the sky simply
> doesn't happen so I have never needed to look into the subject of snow
> tires. I looked at Larry Chase's Roadhaus page to see what tires others
> have found to be good, but I couldn't easily tell which of them were of
> the studded snow tire category.
>
> The local dealer (and employer) is Les Schwab so I reckon it would be a
> fine thing to buy from them.
>
> Could someone more familiar with this subject take a look at the offerings
> from Les Schwab here: http://www.lesschwab.com/tires/winter.asp and advise
> a Pretty Good Tire?
>
> (Note: I just passed the written (actually computer) test to get my Oregon
> driver's license. It was from a 16 year-old kid sitting next to me in the
> waiting room that I learned that studded snow tires are not legal here
> from April 1 to November 1. Good thing he knew that, it was on the test.)
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus -- NOW SOLD TO THE BUYER OF OUR HOUSE
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>

--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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