I don't really need financial backing, spacesavers and screws are plentiful and cheap, I reckon on half an hour labour per tyre and 100% profit. Alan Sugar & his fellow dragons can keep their money.
Gaz, will you accept 25 in return for 40% of your business? I'm used to dealing in tyres - I've got 4 on the daily (and a bald one in the boot) - so I'm sure my expertise will help the new venture greatly.
Is this new business venture to cover the cost of the speeding fine you got the other day? I think I am entitled to 50% of all profits as I suggested the spacesaver method when MikeH started his "Should I drive from London to Inverness in the snow" thread. (worth a read for the banter alone) For the record he failed miserably due to becoming a big girls blouse from his time spent down south.
Metzler tyres I thought were bike tyres. I used to have one of these bad boys on a car rim for a Mad Max project I was working on. Anyway, enough chat about the competition, this is serious business. Carbide tips. Good idea. Probably a bit expensive for budget tyres, but let's stick that on the flipchart, in case we need to come back to it:
I'm reluctant to put any more R&D/CAD work into this TBH. It seem the business is being carved up in my absence. What percentage of the enterprise would I be entitled to if I offered: A bunch of countersunk posidrive screws, Approx. 20m stinger strips, mostly intact, (may be prudent to remove the Avon and Somerset Constabulary markings before testing commences), And a bootful of barbed wire. Cheers. PS does anyone know how to herd really feisty bullocks? TIA.
Had an ex-works MZ ISDT bike in the 70s. It came on Metzler knobblies. Fantastic specific power output: 148 bhp/litre ie 37bhp from 250cc!
The joys of 2 strokes engines. The 125cc, 2 stroke motocrossers put out about 40bhp now. With that bhp per litre a 2.0 ABF should be putting out 640bhp (naturally aspirated)! That will tear these cheap snow tyres apart!
Saab two strokes were just about the best thing ever on snow, even without these brilliant ideas for studding. I loved my Saab 2Ts. Saab used to supply, free of charge, tuning info., drgs, etc. so you could tune your own engines to about 100bhp (120bhp/l). Of course these were piston controlled induction, so was the MZ. With rotary valves and reeds, they could now be producing easily 200bhp/litre. Wish they still made proper cars, instead on the GM clones!
Unless you knock out a set of those for 50 you're not really in the running, it would be cheaper to crash your car than to buy those poncey things. If you've a thing for spending lots of money on rubber & studs I can put you on to a good website.
You're doing yourself there Chris, if you pay me 25, I buy the spacesavers off Ebay for 20 & then sell them once modified for 50, I'd then have to give you 40% of 30, which is about 12ish. You'd be 13 out of pocket
As CEO of my newly formed enterprise, which I am calling Cheap Uniseason New Tyres inc. It is my duty to say- You're fired.
Gaz, Alot of your recent activity on this forum is business related, what with the tyres and your eel hunting exploits! Your new found fettishes with black round things is cause for concern. I fear your next idea may involve producing black holes with a home made Hadron Collider! You will need to start posting in the entrepeneurs section. PS. I have 5 space savers in stock but the flaw in this venture is they do not fit over 280mm brakes thus restricting the core market to those with 238 & 256mm ladies brakes! (still better than a Toyota Prius I suppose!)
