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- From: georgew@hspice.portal.com (George Wu)
- Subject: Re: Do I need Chains?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.183726.26830@hspice.portal.com>
- Organization: Meta - Software
- References: <1992Dec11.224222.6534@prpa.philips.com> <1992Dec16.010322.15451@clarinet.com> <1992Dec16.234120.20755@prpa.philips.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:37:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.234120.20755@prpa.philips.com> ross@prpa.philips.com (Ross Morley) writes:
- >grant@clarinet.com (Grant Robinson) writes:
-
- >>We were on I80 while chain restrictions were on all the way from just past
- >>Applegate to Tahoe City, and you can rest assured, no one drove at
- >>30 mph.
- >
- >Even the ones with chains on? The chain manufacturers say not to exceed
- >30mph because it wears the chains out too quickly (and I suppose there
- >is a danger of them flying off if you rotate the wheels too fast).
- >
- >> We had chains, and limited our speed to 30 - 35 mph, and were
- >>passed on everything on the road that was operational. Some of the 4WD's
- >>were pushing 65, based on educated guessing. Average speeds were probably
- >>in the neighbourhood of 45 - 50 mph. No hard pavement in sight anywhere.
- >
- >Now I would have been one of those 4WDs pushing 65 if I felt
- >sufficiently in control :-). But with chains on hard pavement I
- >wouldn't want to go that fast. Damages tires too. On snow, well no
- >damage to tires or chains, but why do the chain manufacturers say not
- >to exceed 30mph with chains on?
-
- First time I ever drove to Tahoe, a bunch of us piled into two cars. It
- snowed about a foot on the way up. It took my about seven hours to reach South
- Lake Tahoe, never exceeding 35 mph with the chains. (Okay, so I really have to
- restrain myself. :-)
-
- The other car took twenty hours. They had chains, but ignored the speed
- limit. The chains broke, they had remove them, and make their way back down
- to civilization. By the time they got there, all the stores had closed, so
- they waited a few hours for them to open up so they could buy new chains.
-
- First day after a foot of fresh snow, I had a blast. The other car, well,
- they slept well.
-
- George
-
-
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