02-28-2010, 05:55 PM | #1 |
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A Few Laps in the Snow
Here's my little monkey doing a few laps in the backyard, it was finally warm enough outside today to pack the snow enough to make a path for his quad.
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03-01-2010, 03:24 AM | #2 |
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Ahh! Happy Kids! Great stuff..
I take it this was done BEFORE the hockey game, mate? |
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03-01-2010, 07:50 AM | #3 | |
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03-04-2010, 03:56 PM | #4 |
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That video was so cute! Thank you for sharing it with us!
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03-12-2010, 07:09 PM | #5 |
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That's great!! I did the same thing a few weeks ago in our back yard. I used the snowblower and cleared a big track out back. My 4, 6 and 8yr/olds veered off course and into the ~2ft of snow so many times I was exhausted in 20min. Preceding the whole adventure, of course I had to warm up the machine and test things out. There I am flying around the 'track' and things all of a sudden felt funny. Unbeknownst to me I blew the right rear tire right off the rim. 8O Apparently I had it it 'lil too low on air. Not fun getting that sucker to re-bead in 20degF garage. Oh.. with only 3 or 4 inches of ground clearance before the rear sprocket protector bottoms out, these babies are not too good in the snow.
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03-12-2010, 07:18 PM | #6 | |
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Good story! We had almost zero snow this year so I never got to try our little ones out in it. Maybe next year. -TT |
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03-12-2010, 07:36 PM | #7 |
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What's snow?
To rebead the tire, and this may be nuts but it works, you can use a little propane, engine starter, hair spray or other flammable gas and a match. It does work. No I've not tried it but I've seen it on YouTube and read about it. 8O
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03-13-2010, 12:47 PM | #8 |
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Oh it was a pain to get that tire to seat! I had to soap up the bead and tighten a strap around the circumference of the tire as I was adding air. Eventually it popped back on and has been holding air ever since. Had it not been well below freezing out it would have been a bit easier. Doing the strap trick works like a charm.
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03-14-2010, 01:35 AM | #9 |
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I learned an additional trick from my tire buddy: remove the valve core and dump in a large volume of air in a hurry. It helps in seating the bead very quickly.
Upon seating the bead (even though the tire will still be flat), re-install the valve core and then fill 'er up.
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03-14-2010, 11:10 AM | #10 |
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Yeah, when i was racing, mounting those 6" racing slicks was a PITA, using the method you metioned W&G worked most of the time, but i also had to resort to using straps, the ether and match trick and also sometimes had to put the tire/wheel into a steel pail/drum and then inflate to get the bead to seat.
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