<VV> New "stock" tires for LM's

FrankDuVal corvairduval at cox.net
Thu Mar 26 00:20:35 EDT 2020


Bingo, right answer! Look at the picture of the tire, obvious Radial.

Frank DuVal

On 3/25/2020 10:59 PM, mark--- via VirtualVairs wrote:
> S is the speed rating. R is for radial. All of the other tires in the 
> Vredestein Sprint Classic series are radials with various speed 
> ratings including SR, VR, and HR. Odd size now but not in the 1960s in 
> the US.
>
> Mark N
>
> On 3/25/20 9:44 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> The SR will be a speed rating. I've never seen anything but bias ply 
>> in inches and radials in mm - but that is in England of course. And 
>> the diameter is always in inches, with one specific exception and I 
>> can't remember what that was now. 6.40 x 13 has to be a very unusual 
>> size. 6.40 x 15 was common at one time - again in the UK - but I've 
>> never seen a 6.40 tire with a smaller diameter than that.
>


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