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Author: nik.morgannik.morgan Date: Aug 30, 2008 10:59
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:07:14 +0100, nightjar wrote
(in article giganews.com>):
>> Burst tyre wouldn't do that. I even had the offside front one let go
>> once at 56MPH and all I did was slowly drift over to the H/S and stop.
>> Despite what I'd imagined such an even would be like, it was quite
>> uneventful apart from lots of noise and dust.
>
> As I have posted elsewhere, I did see an artic snake across all three lanes
> of a fortunately empty motorway as a result of a blow-out. I was surprised
> to see when I came up to where he eventually stopped on the hard shoulder to
> see it had been a trailer unit tyre. I would have expected that to have had
> little or no effect as he was simply travelling at a steady speed, without
> any reason to brake or change direction.
>
We had one upside down in a ditch as a result of a front wheel blowout.
although I must mention that this was some time ago, as was the one you
witnessed.
In those days there were three piece wheels with inner tubes, with modern
tubeless one piece wheels running flat and strraight is the most likely but
when the bead of the tyre slips into the well of the wheel results can be
just as spectacular as the old ones however one would expect this on a curve
not a straight line.
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