Where you get your tires?

I have always gone through Tabor, at times the tires have shown up just days later

Crummy to hear you are still waiting on rally-tire.com

Crummiest is the lack of an alternate for Michelins suberb 14/62 x 15 size.
That size is the absolute hot sheeeeeeut for any gawddamn Gp2/GpF thing under 230 bhp , ideal for warmed over Golves, and Fuccubi.

and I don't mean close I mean 14/62 dammit..

( I gave Xratty Sean some fatter things before Doo-wop so he'd have same size stuff and spares and he gave me a pair of 14/62s in return, just dropped them off a couple of days ago and damn it reminded me of how much I LURV those tire)

HEY all youse wise guys AGITATE to any supplier you contact for skinnier and smaller tires--virtually EVERYBODY is using tires at least a step too fat and tall.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Youse guys, NOBODY HERE is Loeb and Grönholm, you don't have the torques and you don't drive like them, YOU DON'T NEED THE SAME SIZE (HEAVY---and so much grip that squaring corners is harder than need be) THEY USE.

I don't give a shit if everybody is doing it---in the much harder sport I used to do with much more powerful machines on way worse surfaces local amatuers ALSO invariably used tires too big for rtheir speed and gas applications---and would alwways not question but lecture me that my tires were too small.....

After I'd annihilate them (out accelerate them on smaller motored bike, out brake them, out corner them crush them by 30 minutes or more in a 100 mile desert race), I'd ask how their tires were...

Numbers of people making same error does not make it right or desirable.
50 billion flies eat shit every day....you gonna start because its 50 billion?

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John is quite right about the 14/62-15(624 mm tall, 145 mm tread width in the new BFG 175/70-15 version)being the size that is most appropriate for 2WD cars. Tall enough to roll over stuff, but not so tall as to not fit inside the fenderwells of older G2 cars. This Michelin/BFG works great on looser/sandy/soft/wet surfaces. Its downsides are wear on very hard, abrasive surfaces and being narrow enough that a G2 car with a fair amount of power spins them too easy. Interestingly, Michelin used to make a 16/62-15(much wider) but it was almost impossible to find in the US.

Other than the Silverstone 15/62-15(620 mm tall, 156 mm tread width) no other good options are available in the US. Pirelli makes a couple of great tires, a 175/70-15 K4(625, 165) and a 195/65-15 T4(622, 160). I talked briefly to Four Star about importing a batch. Kumho has an R800 185/60-25(610,162) that looks very similar to Pirelli' s K4. Dunlop has another similar that looks like a Pirelli K4, the SP85 185/60-15 (606, 158).

The large rally sizes are well represented in the US but the smaller sizes are definitely lacking choices. I am hoping that I will be able to have Four Star do a special order otherwise I will be trying to do a private import. It sure would help if people started asking for better tires-I am.

George

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well im not happy about the size, but its the only tire i could find for a 14 rim. i dont have the budget to buy new rims as well.

did you get in touch with them/ i have Barak's cell phone number.. PM me.

Got a hold of them. Tires on the way.