Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:46:52 -0400 From: "Kenneth S." <nimrodnopsams.com> Subject: Re: Where are most Saabs sold?
ByteSchlepper wrote: > > noonenopsaml.com (KeithG) wrote in > <LEdh7.32324$Iq4.13621484nopsamoon.columbus.rr.com>: > > >4 studded tires? What part of the world do you live in that requires > >this? Studs only help on ice and degrade the road surface for the rest > >of us. In addition they help to reduce traction on dry pavement. > > Snow belt of Upstate New York; winter's very long and we have our fair > share of freezing rain/ice as well as quite a bit of snow (190" last year); > plus I live away from any big cities and in a valley, so there's no place > to go without going up a big hill. As for degrading the road surface, well, > that's what I pay my taxes for. Studs are legal Nov-April here and you'd be > surprised how many people have them. The wife's got a Jeep and we put them > on there too. I'm just curious, but exactly where in New York state are studded tires still legal? Many years ago I lived in a rural part of western New York state where there was a huge amount of snow. Even there, studded snow tires had been banned since (I think) the fifties. In the area where I lived there was a heavy predominance of dirt roads.
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