What!??  Your Darkside chapter gets fish crackers with their tomato soup ??!!

Whoa, I feel cheated.  They don't even try to heat our clotted cold tomato soup up over them little pitiful cans of pale blue burning sterno any more.  Instead, they make us drink it cold after pouring it down the center tread channel of a 7 and 7/8" wide Yokohama 17" diameter racing radial.  

Theory is the smoking tire is supposed to still be hot from a Suggo style burn-out so that way we don't need to lite us up any cans of sterno, we can just open them and drink them directly as a hand-to-hand communal libation to the gods of good cornering ...



 ..... they give you guys little cheesie fish crackers, I'm jealous.  They won't even give us any bits of cheese cloth to squeeze out the last of the sterno juice.

I used "Universal Vintage Tire" to get the 135R15 for the back of the Tug Savage. They also 145R15 listed. No aspect ratio so I'd guess 85 or higher. Max

Edit. mine is a Firestone brand and not very rounded. Phelonius also has one on the back of his Savage Tug a Michelin I think Look for his posts.
http://www.universaltire.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=25126&categor...

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 08/23/08 at 18:11:54:





Hers some leads for VW Beetle tires:

http://www.vwparts.net/135tire.html

http://www.vwparts.net/145tire.html

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC10%2D6640

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC10%2D6650

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC10%2D6644

http://www.jbugs.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=145SR15&Cate...

http://www.jbugs.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=135SR15&Cate...

Here are a couple of more videos.  First, a beautiful round cornered Perelli car tire -- best functioning of the Darkside tires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAHlbSzwjsg&feature=related

Do you think them Louisiana bayou flat-bangers and big "V" guys are getting into them car tires or what?  Turn the sound on, you gotta listen to this second video, the sheer boyish glee bubbling in them guys voices .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgu0p9ddmMw&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTpPBrDhub0&feature=related


Are they having any fun yet ???  

yup.  Even them cute little girls like them darkside tires on their daddy's bikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrckWejSZgw&feature=related

Cocker tire is listing some even narrower 135 and 145 Firestone radials on their site, as well as the 155-80r BFG which was the cheapest price I saw for it. I'm calling in the morning to see what's up. Their shipping prices are pretty reasonable too. At least I know I'll be getting a tire of some sort within the next week or so.

How do the Firestones rate with the BFG's and the Goodyears? I would love to have the name Perrilli on the back of the bike if there was a size and a reasonable price tag to go with it.

Yeah, the Minnesota sect of the "DarkSiders Ltd." organization is a hearty breed indeed. Hot soup, extra chunky style, with a little sweet corn mixed in for added texture. They do have written into the bylaws though (due to cholesteral issues) that we don't get the cheesy fish crackers, but rather the round little oyster crackers. They Cite the same legal reasons that the custom shop used when they wouldn't make a hitch for the Savage. "We might get sued."

Gotta go try on my robes for the initiation rituals that are coming up pretty soon. Ride safe and prosper as Spock might say.

Jack

Gort my man, links look interesting. The real VW tires are narrower and I like the look of the rounded wrap around tread faces on some of them. Maybe I should have our "DarkSider Ltd" chapter up here order up an honorary set of robes for you. Just in case. Thanks for the sites.

Jack

Jack_650 wrote on 08/24/08 at 12:32:35:







Real VW tires are narrower than 135, 145, 155 x15?  What size are the originals?

Earlier in this thread members were having difficulty locating 155/15 tires for the rear wheel of their Savage.  Apparently this size is required due to clearance limitations.  The links I provided in the earlier post were for 135, 145 & 155/15 tires.