So I hear. Just gotta find some here in Bend.
--
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

On 8/27/2008 1:49 AM Jeffrey Lubin wrote:

> I'm in the Nokian crowd too:
>
> Nokian Hakkapeliitta CS
> Size: 195R14
>
> It's a great all-weather tire.
> Love 'em
>
>
>
> Mike Elliott 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
>>
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