10.12.24: Right Rubber for Snow! What Tire Is Better for Getting Where You're Snowing (& Amplifies Your Skillset), Size & Compounds & Compromises That Won't Kill You, + Locomotives Are Heavy, & Is That Guy Following You?

Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns

This episode's got all sorts of trafficky truckin' road-interface goodness to assist you in your daily gearhead existence, but it's mostly about how to understand your tires and what's right when the white stuff is falling down in Front Range fashion. Or any range... We've got the grok on tire width, suppleness, temperature range, snow treads, chemicals and materials, ice versus snow driving, why it's a fine idea to have a second set of llantas for the off-season, and why you probably wouldn't wear hiking boots to a formal dance. ...And why all that and a bucket of fish heads still won't save you if you aren't good at driving.

Not to put too fine a point on it (we're ALL fine points here at the Garage Hour), there's also a little free gas (at the pump), a few thoughts about why that guy is following you (such a nice bumper), plus Floyd, FLeppard and Pantera.