Just maybe there is a link here with messages about the best tyre sizes?
If you increase the grip between tyre and road, you increase cornering
speed, and the likelyhood that the cornering forces will overcome your
centre of gravity before it slides ..... and over you go! Unsorted
suspension will also add to the risk.
For road use I think the best thing is to keep to a reasonable tyre width
(up to 165?) and road compound tyres.
Just enjoy the way it slides and handles !
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: Mostyn Faulkner <mostynf@earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: 09 May 1999 06:37
Subject: Re: sprites upside down
> I did't find it too hard to roll mine. Twice it went over, once in 65 and
once
> in 66. I'm still alive?? Wonder where that sprite is now? Sold it in 70
while I
> was in the Air Force in Phoenix. Got about $500 for it I think. I remember
it
> had corvair rims welded to sprite inners on the rear and a set of 800-500
13
> Firestone Indy tires on the rear. Stuck like glue not rails. Roll bar out
of 2"
> ridged pipe. Worked real good when it went upside down.
>
> usual disclaimers
>
> Mostyn
>
>
> andy webster wrote:
>
> > :
> > a) The sprite got rolled (you must have to try hard to do that)
> > b)The driver lived (fat chance)
> > Andy
> >
> > I'm sure I'm about to be inundated with anecdotes of countless sprite
> > rollings.
>
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>
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