Cross country tips...
09-03-2012, 12:24 PM
#17
Rennlist Member
Others have discussed the tire issue, but it can be extremely beneficial to CHECK YOUR TIRE PRESSURES just before you go to make certain they are at the correct pressure when cold (overnight). Having a good spare and a pump and sealant and good tread and spares, etc, are all important, but the simple act of making certain the tires are inflated correctly to begin with can save you many problems later.
If you are overnighting on the way, check your tire pressures again in the morning before you head out for the next leg. The open highway surface has many unseen "bullets".
My personal thing is 'Drive Around Everything in the Road."
Amazing what is laying right in the middle of the road on an open highway, and how a small crack in the pavement ahead, or a "shadow", turns into a nasty hole with a sharp edge upon arrival at highway speed.
If you are overnighting on the way, check your tire pressures again in the morning before you head out for the next leg. The open highway surface has many unseen "bullets".
My personal thing is 'Drive Around Everything in the Road."
Amazing what is laying right in the middle of the road on an open highway, and how a small crack in the pavement ahead, or a "shadow", turns into a nasty hole with a sharp edge upon arrival at highway speed.
09-03-2012, 02:46 PM
#18
Race Director
Others have discussed the tire issue, but it can be extremely beneficial to CHECK YOUR TIRE PRESSURES just before you go to make certain they are at the correct pressure when cold (overnight). Having a good spare and a pump and sealant and good tread and spares, etc, are all important, but the simple act of making certain the tires are inflated correctly to begin with can save you many problems later.
If you are overnighting on the way, check your tire pressures again in the morning before you head out for the next leg. The open highway surface has many unseen "bullets".
My personal thing is 'Drive Around Everything in the Road."
Amazing what is laying right in the middle of the road on an open highway, and how a small crack in the pavement ahead, or a "shadow", turns into a nasty hole with a sharp edge upon arrival at highway speed.
If you are overnighting on the way, check your tire pressures again in the morning before you head out for the next leg. The open highway surface has many unseen "bullets".
My personal thing is 'Drive Around Everything in the Road."
Amazing what is laying right in the middle of the road on an open highway, and how a small crack in the pavement ahead, or a "shadow", turns into a nasty hole with a sharp edge upon arrival at highway speed.
(Last set of new tires had a bad air valve that would work with a tire pressure gage but would not let me add air.)
I avoid getting off the beaten path. It is scary what trash, and all of it jagged and sharp, exists on the side of roads and in the recesses of parking lots.
Also, I keep my speed way down in these areas to help lessen the chance the front tires kick up something sharp that then the rear tires roll over.
On the open road one has to be also very careful of road debris. Truck tire carcasses are the worst, but I have seen chairs (a recliner), buckets, boxes (empty or full of pig iron you do not want to find out), ladders, various hand tools, pipe fittings, board lumber, fire place logs, you name it I've seen it. An amazing amount of trash and varied. About the only thing I haven't encountered is bags of money (darn) and a body (thank goodness!).
Oh, and animals on the road. A very nice start to a road trip I was looking forward to very much -- driving east from CA on highway 50 (the loneliest highway in America) was brought to a miserable premature end by a mule deer stepping out from behind a guard rail into the path of my Turbo.
Sincerely,
Macster.
