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Thread: Bigger wheels & tyres - arguments for & against.

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    Portals.... with 31s so can go as far as something with 37s

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    I've gone from a ifs with 31s to a solid axle with 33s and 35s and have to agree that more damage to the tracks where made with the smaller wheels.
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    Only PPL I see that wreck tracks are the idiots that cant drive and think the only way
    through an obstacle is with revs. A good driver with 31s will go further than a cowboy
    on 35s in most cases. Anyone can do a donut, ruts are there to assist you especially going
    downhill, Cant count the amount of times PPl try to steer out of them going down.
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    I have witnessed DHs with 8" lifts and massive, chunky tyre, wilfully chew up sections of the railway access track in my area, thus making the area inaccessible to access to emergency vehicles and crews which may have to deal with a derailment.

    The drivers mangled an easy section that even a Commodore could have driven through, while a tool in a Yota filmed it while he was driving between the rails!!
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    I wouldnt hesitate in reporting these clowns . they give most of us a bad name
    but once a cowboy chances are you still are,,, grow up eh

    @MN you should get rego ,pics, time etc and send it in, they will confiscate their 4bys
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    Quote Originally Posted by threedogs View Post
    Only PPL I see that wreck tracks are the idiots that cant drive and think the only way
    through an obstacle is with revs. A good driver with 31s will go further than a cowboy
    on 35s in most cases.
    This isn't a big tyre problem though. A good driver on 35s will go further than a good driver on 31s. A cowboy will rip up the track irrespective of what size tyres he/she has.

    Quote Originally Posted by mudnut View Post
    I have witnessed DHs with 8" lifts and massive, chunky tyre, wilfully chew up sections of the railway access track in my area, thus making the area inaccessible to access to emergency vehicles and crews which may have to deal with a derailment.

    The drivers mangled an easy section that even a Commodore could have driven through, while a tool in a Yota filmed it while he was driving between the rails!!
    Once again, not a big tyre problem, just a tool problem.

    Tarring anyone with 35's or bigger rubber with the same brush is no different to the environmentalists tarring all off-roaders with the same brush.

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    They were bloody lucky no trains came along as there was a twenty foot drop either side of the rail.
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    so it seems its nothing to do with tyre size, well it wont now being capped at 33" unless engineered {very diffIcult}
    It's more to do with whos driving, well not who but more how you drive, so its back to educating newbie and some oldies
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