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Old 04-12-2007, 11:51 AM
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50/50 chance of rain, Atwater Tour

Exactly how bad are the oem tires in the wet?

If it's anything other than standing water/puddles, I guess you just stay on the V710's?
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Originally Posted by mwood
Exactly how bad are the oem tires in the wet?

If it's anything other than standing water/puddles, I guess you just stay on the V710's?
I just stay on my 710s.... It is one thing to go race in the rain, it is another to stand in it and change tires.
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I just stay on my 710s.... It is one thing to go race in the rain, it is another to stand in it and change tires.
Isn't that what wife's are for?

Oh yeah, you're flying solo this weekend...

btw, we're bbq'ing Saturday night (a number of SFR'ers who are staying on site), what do you want? Chicken or a cheeseburger?
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My experience at Devens Tour '06 show that V710 in the right hand is still plenty fast in wet condition, short of standing water. If I remember it correctly, kc was running on V710 and leading over John V/clyde on street (Kook).
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We got another friggin snowstorm last night
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We got another friggin snowstorm last night
You should have had DKNV to move to TX.
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You should have had DKNV to move to TX.
Baggage would've been way too heavy, then there's the matter of no private jet to fly my daughter to 'her' high school every day.
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Baggage would've been way too heavy, then there's the matter of no private jet to fly my daughter to 'her' high school every day.
If TRX8 would spend less time posting and more time working he could buy his own.
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710s work great in the rain, i used them on the street for a short time
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Originally Posted by CRX Millennium
My experience at Devens Tour '06 show that V710 in the right hand is still plenty fast in wet condition, short of standing water. If I remember it correctly, kc was running on V710 and leading over John V/clyde on street (Kook).
710s accelerate and brake fine in the wet, but they don't turn. Devens didn't have that much standing water, it wasn't raining super hard by the time we ran and the drainage was OK at that site so it wasn't terrible. Keith beat us because he's the man, but I wonder if he wouldn't have been faster on our 'kooks.

We ran V710s in the rain (REAL rain) at Toledo in '05 and it was a nightmare. They are terrible rain tires.
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