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When racing karts we used to avoid storing tyres in the garage to avoid the cold over the winter and stuck them in a spare room for the coldest months. I think this was a fairly common thing to do (and pleased the wife of course) so you might like to enquire on this front. At three years old they want to be fairly cheap and perhaps not your first choice for a championship deciding race...
Nick
Nick
What Nick says is right.
They could be OK, but equally they may well not be ............... 3 years is pretty darn old and most tyre warehouses I've been in aren't heated.
As I see it > if you're buying blind, price has to be cheap enough to say when they arrive "round things, they're no bloody good into the skip with them boyos". If you can get to see 'em and you know how sticky & pliable brand new slicks are and they feel and smell 'good enough', go for 'em - slightest sign of gone hard / sidewall splitting - little horizontal cracks - then walk away - if a tyre lets go on a Radical you'll almost certainly be having an off at a rate that most have never (thankfully) experienced.
If they are viewable, but not local, then Will @ ROC may be able to get a ROC Member local to them to go have a look for you - even if you can't make the Inaugural Trackday! All trustworthy friends at ROC.
BTW, if they happen to be Matador Dry Slicks, I have heard folks far more knowledgeable than me say enough for me to say to you right now, save the postage / petrol.
They could be OK, but equally they may well not be ............... 3 years is pretty darn old and most tyre warehouses I've been in aren't heated.
As I see it > if you're buying blind, price has to be cheap enough to say when they arrive "round things, they're no bloody good into the skip with them boyos". If you can get to see 'em and you know how sticky & pliable brand new slicks are and they feel and smell 'good enough', go for 'em - slightest sign of gone hard / sidewall splitting - little horizontal cracks - then walk away - if a tyre lets go on a Radical you'll almost certainly be having an off at a rate that most have never (thankfully) experienced.
If they are viewable, but not local, then Will @ ROC may be able to get a ROC Member local to them to go have a look for you - even if you can't make the Inaugural Trackday! All trustworthy friends at ROC.
BTW, if they happen to be Matador Dry Slicks, I have heard folks far more knowledgeable than me say enough for me to say to you right now, save the postage / petrol.
DarcySmith said:
Thanks for that.
They are in fact Avon tyres being stored/sold by Avon
Regards
Darcy
That sounds rather more promising; one doubts they'd sell anything likely to kill the buyer! They are in fact Avon tyres being stored/sold by Avon
Regards
Darcy
The only thing I often scratch my head about with Avons is their size compatibility for Radicals compared to Dunlops and whether one should or can use their radials or their crossplies - presumably the suspension set-up would be different for radials and crossplies - someone will hopefully tell me why one would want to use crossplies (which 'traditionally' have stiffer sidewalls and all 13" slicks for Radical have a tall profile) when presumably a Radical is designed to run radials i.e. Dunlops for a few years now? Something to do with Avon's compounds?
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