edevinney
01-17-2008, 03:01 PM
I had a meeting in Berryville today and, discounting the usually panicy weather reports (buy bread! buy milk! buy toilet paper!) I took the 911 and figured the swanky new Proxes 4 tires would handle anything that came alone. They've been good in the dry, about like the Yoko ES100s they replaced, and pretty good so far in the winter.
Saw a couple flakes on my way out, same in B'ville. No worries.
Well, of course it snowed pretty good this morning. When I left Berryville around 11:45 there was about 3" on the ground and it was coming down good. No worries, got plenty of traction in the snow and slush. All fine on Route 7 til I got over the river and started going up the mountain - traffic was light but slowing. Nope, now stopped. The road hasn't seen a plow yet.
Cars in the grass, cars on the side, trucks on the side but I got traction: M&S tires, a limited slip diff, ABD, ABS. I'm going up, me and the 4x4s on what amounts to wet ice with snow on top. Then we get stopped where it starts getting steep, there's a trash truck across the road and hooked into the ass end of an 18 wheeler. Maybe I should pull over, don't know if I can get going again. While I ponder, some clown decides to go up the right next to me and shuts the door for an exit. Guess I'm going up.
We start moving after 10 minutes or so, some sliding but I get going. The ABD light never goes off, so I must be losing traction equally side to side, how nice. A little dicey as traffic slows but I'm still going up. Pass more stuck cars. Moving along until I get within sight of the summit and it gets the steepest. Ooops, back end's too loose, I don't want to head inside to the rail so I take the out to the right and ... I'm stuck in 4 inches of snow. Each attempt to move inches me to the ditch so I relax and go put on the tow hook to wait for a truck. The tires are churning up nice chunks of snow but there's nothing underneath to grab. Some cars go by, including a Prius with Florida plates (I bow in his direction) and a 535 being towed by a friendly pickup driver. Get a lot of looks from the stopped westbound traffic, no shortage of schadenfreude I'm sure.
Then no traffic. Nothing to lose so I reverse down the incline and back onto the ice & slush. Careful with the gas (damning the lightweight flywheel now!), brake and handbrake and .... I'm going up! Then to the top, then safely down & home. Schadenfreude this, Mr Plumbing truck driver.
All that and a full set for my 993 was only about $530 installed over at Radial Tire. Just thought you should know that these tires kick ass.
Saw a couple flakes on my way out, same in B'ville. No worries.
Well, of course it snowed pretty good this morning. When I left Berryville around 11:45 there was about 3" on the ground and it was coming down good. No worries, got plenty of traction in the snow and slush. All fine on Route 7 til I got over the river and started going up the mountain - traffic was light but slowing. Nope, now stopped. The road hasn't seen a plow yet.
Cars in the grass, cars on the side, trucks on the side but I got traction: M&S tires, a limited slip diff, ABD, ABS. I'm going up, me and the 4x4s on what amounts to wet ice with snow on top. Then we get stopped where it starts getting steep, there's a trash truck across the road and hooked into the ass end of an 18 wheeler. Maybe I should pull over, don't know if I can get going again. While I ponder, some clown decides to go up the right next to me and shuts the door for an exit. Guess I'm going up.
We start moving after 10 minutes or so, some sliding but I get going. The ABD light never goes off, so I must be losing traction equally side to side, how nice. A little dicey as traffic slows but I'm still going up. Pass more stuck cars. Moving along until I get within sight of the summit and it gets the steepest. Ooops, back end's too loose, I don't want to head inside to the rail so I take the out to the right and ... I'm stuck in 4 inches of snow. Each attempt to move inches me to the ditch so I relax and go put on the tow hook to wait for a truck. The tires are churning up nice chunks of snow but there's nothing underneath to grab. Some cars go by, including a Prius with Florida plates (I bow in his direction) and a 535 being towed by a friendly pickup driver. Get a lot of looks from the stopped westbound traffic, no shortage of schadenfreude I'm sure.
Then no traffic. Nothing to lose so I reverse down the incline and back onto the ice & slush. Careful with the gas (damning the lightweight flywheel now!), brake and handbrake and .... I'm going up! Then to the top, then safely down & home. Schadenfreude this, Mr Plumbing truck driver.
All that and a full set for my 993 was only about $530 installed over at Radial Tire. Just thought you should know that these tires kick ass.