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RE: Can I run these tires for stock class?

To: "'John J. Stimson-III'" <john@harlie.idsfa.net>,
Subject: RE: Can I run these tires for stock class?
From: Carl Merritt <CMerritt@luminous.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:02:07 -0800
ARE there any tires currently available between 120 and 140?  Might make
sense to harmonize the rules to reduce confusion...

Here I go, arm-chair coaching the steering committee again, sorry!

-Carl


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John J. Stimson-III [mailto:john@harlie.idsfa.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:33 PM
> To: Pat Kelly
> Cc: Joey Jarosz; Carson Black; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Can I run these tires for stock class?
> 
> 
> If it is for a San Francisco Region class which requires street tires
> ("Street Tire" or Novice), it has to have a treadwear rating of 120 or
> more.
> 
> If it is for Street Touring S or STX, it has to have a treadwear
> rating of 140 or more.
> 
> If it is for a stock class or another class which requires DOT-legal
> tires, the A3S03 is legal.  There is some mention of a requirement for
> "measurable tread somewhere on the tire", but I don't think that's
> enforced locally.  People just tend to run them until they show
> cord...
> 
> Wheels must be stock, or same diameter and width as stock with no more
> than 1/4" difference in offset.
> 
> -- 
> 
> john@idsfa.net                                              
> John Stimson
> http://www.idsfa.net/~john/                              HMC 
> Physics '94

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