Thread: Lets See The Transport havn a Oops moment

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@Flyblown. Prick of a road was there around the same time. How many tires did you get through? I did two on it total trashed then four more in Ethiopia boss wasn’t to happy last one I stitched repaired with some old tire and wire which held till Addis

Small world eh. We had one puncture on the entire 14 month Southern / Eastern Africa trip, somewhere in Tanzania I think. At 30,000km in Nairobi we replaced four tyres, which will have been the ones in the photo. The volcanic rock in Namibia was really tough on them.

Dunlop Universal cross-ply tyres, 7.00x16, tubed of course, on HJ45 split rims. “Biscuit” tyres we called them. I was asking @madmaori for something similar recently, they are very unfashionable these days, rubbish on the bitumen but you get used to them, but off road they are amazing. Anyway as you know there wasn’t exactly much in the way bitumen around eh, in that part of the world, and what bitumen there was usually looked like it had been bombed by a squadron of A-10 Warthogs.