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Default OT Tires only go in one direction

On Sun, 10 May 2015 21:58:10 -0600, rbowman wrote:

On 05/10/2015 01:47 PM, J Burns wrote:
On their track, engineered like most roads, backward tires performed
fine. That was my experience on motorcycles. I'd run at 80 or 90 in
hard rain.


On both motorcycles and bicycles some people mount the tires backwards


Biccyles? There is forward and backwards on bicycles?

on purpose and swear by the results. While I'm sure tire engineers do a
lot of testing and computer simulation I sometimes think 'the pattern
looks kewl' plays a part.