Something else to worry about

[Bob]

Veloise wrote:
> Bob wrote:
> ...
> > BTW, I think you mean 20" not 26" rims if
> > you are referring passenger cars. Or did you mean those horns are
> > popping up all over your area on 70's era "tenspeeds"? ;-)
>
> That would be 27"
>
> HTH
>
> --Karen D.
> still has one

Right you are. All the non-metric specs were confusing me. <g>

Regards,
Bob Hunt

 

[Tom Keats]

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] writes:
>
> FWIW, a month or two ago, we had an article in our local paper about
> those railroad horns. The article was off some wire service, IIRC.
>
> They are selling enough to get attention in the press. And sadly, that
> means more and more yahoos will become inspired to buy them.

No doubt the folks who buy them will insist they need them
for "safety", as the regular car horns just aren't loud enough.
If huge amounts of more light is always better, huge amounts
of more noise must be, too


cheers,
Tom

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[Bob]

Gooserider wrote:

> No, Bob, I mean exactly what I wrote. The new trend for the "street
> pharmacist" is what's called a "Donk". A "Donk" is a car(Chevy Impala, Town
> Car, Cadillac, etc) which has the largest possible rim shoehorned into it.
> 20" is passe'. The "Donk" owner isn't concerned with the car being low.
> Their cars look like 4x4s. I've personally seen 24" wheels put on, and I
> know 26" rims are available, so it's just a matter of time.

I don't doubt that you may have seen 24" rims stuffed into the wheel
wells of what is referred to around here as a "hoopdy" or what you call
a "donk". I do doubt that you're going to see 26" rims though, at least
not until tire manufacturers get on board. Goodyear and BF Goodrich are
two of the largest tire manufacturers in the world. A check of their
websites shows that Goodyear makes a handful of low profile tires for
up to 21" rims and BF Goodrich makes a very few for rim sizes up to
24". AFAICT, neither makes *any* low profile tires for 26" rims.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

 

[Gooserider]

"Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Gooserider wrote:
>
>> No, Bob, I mean exactly what I wrote. The new trend for the "street
>> pharmacist" is what's called a "Donk". A "Donk" is a car(Chevy Impala,
>> Town
>> Car, Cadillac, etc) which has the largest possible rim shoehorned into
>> it.
>> 20" is passe'. The "Donk" owner isn't concerned with the car being low.
>> Their cars look like 4x4s. I've personally seen 24" wheels put on, and I
>> know 26" rims are available, so it's just a matter of time.
>
> I don't doubt that you may have seen 24" rims stuffed into the wheel
> wells of what is referred to around here as a "hoopdy" or what you call
> a "donk". I do doubt that you're going to see 26" rims though, at least
> not until tire manufacturers get on board. Goodyear and BF Goodrich are
> two of the largest tire manufacturers in the world. A check of their
> websites shows that Goodyear makes a handful of low profile tires for
> up to 21" rims and BF Goodrich makes a very few for rim sizes up to
> 24". AFAICT, neither makes *any* low profile tires for 26" rims.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Hunt

24" is still a lot bigger than the 20" you assumed I meant.

 

[RonSonic]

On 3 Mar 2006 18:50:23 -0800, "landotter" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Gooserider wrote:
>> "landotter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> > Gooserider wrote:
>> >>Hey, do you know
>> >> that there are tools which can remove the insides of a Schraeder valve?
>> >> I'll
>> >> bet someone with such a tool could remove the valve cores from 4 truck
>> >> tires
>> >> in about a minute or so. That would be something.
>> >
>> > If you're in the States, just go to an Autozone or Pep Boys and get you
>> > a 79c valve core removal tool, not that I recommend escalating the
>> > animosity and I especially don't recommend chewing four pieces of
>> > really sticky gum on the way there and smearing it on the valves after
>> > the cores had been removed. That would be juvenile.
>>
>> Yes, that would be very juvenile. Not as juvenile as injecting the empty
>> valves with Shoe Goo or some other highly sticky material, but very juvenile
>> indeed.
>
>But the uber-juvenile, would mix some two part epoxy at the scene of
>the crime and render the valves unrecoverable, and would be a true
>cretin in my opinion.

No big deal. Replacing a valve stem is about a 1.5 minute job. There's a guy in
the phone book who'll be out there and have it done for about $20.

Ron

 

[landotter]

Bob wrote:

> It's been a very long time since I had any cruel little dreams of
> revenge. I can't recall having a single one since I've grown up as a
> matter of fact.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Hunt

Watch "Amelie" and you'll get some ideas of your own.

*g*

 

[Bjorn]

"Tom Keats" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> Horns like that belong more on bikes.

Anybody using an AirZound? They are supposed to go to 115...

bjorn

 

[Bob]

Gooserider wrote:


> 24" is still a lot bigger than the 20" you assumed I meant.

There's no need to get defensive. We *both* made mistakes, ok? That's
the good thing about this NG. The regulars here admit our mistakes.
Well, most of us do anyway and no, that's not a shot directed at you. I
haven't read enough of your posts to form an opinion on that yet.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

 

[Gooserider]

"Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Gooserider wrote:
>
>
>> 24" is still a lot bigger than the 20" you assumed I meant.
>
> There's no need to get defensive. We *both* made mistakes, ok? That's
> the good thing about this NG. The regulars here admit our mistakes.
> Well, most of us do anyway and no, that's not a shot directed at you. I
> haven't read enough of your posts to form an opinion on that yet.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Hunt

OK, Bob.