"C.H." > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:38:35 -0700, Bernard Farquart wrote:
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>> "C.H." > wrote in message
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>> I have a 1962 scout 80 that had bias ply tires on it for the first two
>> or three years that I owned it, and I have ended up using it as my
>> daily driver in city traffic in a city that throughout the nineties was
>> rated in the top (or bottom) five cities for crappy traffic. (Seattle)
>> I had a 1955 belair fourdoor, also with bias ply tires that I drove for
>> about a year in Seattle city traffic.
>
>> So yes, I have already driven quite a few miles in exactly the situation
>> you suggest. My opinion remains that you are talking out of your ass.
>
> And my opinion remains that you would see that subject much different if
> you were my former flight instructor, who is 5' and maybe 90 lbs. My
> opinon also remains that you should not assume everyone is talking out of
> a certain backside orifice just because you use that orifice for talking.
>

I am talking out of said orifice why? Because I actually had experience
using
the tires in question? Because my opinion is based on thousands of miles of
real world urban driving?

Just because some midget in the 5th percentile of adult body mass can not
do something easily does not mean very much to the rest of us.

I am sure your "former flight instructor" would have a hard time riding an
adult's bicycle, but that does not make the bicycle a faulty design.

Bernard