Jerry: While I agree that Radial tires are the best choice for most street
and highway driving, (I run the Michelin175-15s on my BN7), I have been
racing the BN1on Dunlop bias ply and Hoosier bias ply in excess of 110 MPH
for the past 10 years. And they are good in the rain when they still have
decent tread left. I think you'll find that most big Healey racers follow
suit.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "tammie wall" <whammie@iopener.net>
To: <healey.nut@gmail.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Tires
> one of the problems of the list is erroneous information being imparted to
> those that don't know any better. the only reason to ever put bias-ply
> tires, dunlop roadspeeds or any others on a healey, is to drive it on and
> off the trailer. you certainly don't want to drive bias-plys at todays
> highway speeds, particularly, in rainy weather. i had a new set of
> roadspeeds on a 100M i owned in the early 80's and this was the snakiest,
> scariest ride you can imagine and if it started to rain you better get off
> the road.. buy the best radials you can afford in keeping with whatever
> wheels you are running. cheap tires are not a good compromise unless you
> have a confirmed garage queen. my tire of choice for the BN6 since 1992
> has been the michelin 175x15. i'm now on my second set and hope by the
> time i need to reshoe again -- availablility will have returned.
> jerry wall
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