Whether it's for Bonneville, your new pickup truck or your $200,000.00 Nate wants everyone to know that shaving new tires Jones and his son with the Bullett's 2017 Goodyear LSR tires.Mounted, Nate Jones and Son.Nate Jones Cowboy Tire Their tires inspected and stamped after every run. There will be piles of chunked tires in the motorcycle Rubber just builds up heat on the long course at Bonneville. Tires themselves may or may not be round and Nate shaves them and makes them round. Nate Jones Cowboy Tire in Signal Hill California does everyone's LSR Tires and has done ours since 1985. Nate Jones LSR Tire Balancing and Shaving The years from build to our departure in 2017. In 2017 weĬorrected this bring out total outlay to just short of $4,000.00 over Mike had originally chosen the wrong, non-LSR rear tire. Over the course of buying multiple sets Goodyear LSR tires we found Mickey Thomson, the Summers Brothers, and Al Teague. Rubber bands in the tradition of Sir Malcolm Campbell, Craig Breedlove, These LSR tires run on Funny Car certified wheels with 70 PSI tire pressure. These look like they are worth $1300.00? Well, If you are Bryan Stock and sitting on theīullet with the front tire going 250 MPH and the rear tire spinning at 275 MPH, it is, from his viewpoint, money well spent.Ģ3" 2283 front tire to the right above. He's hoping the new front will beīetter with it's more rounded and taller profile. Long course.and after his last run he said he was on the floorboards In 2016 Bryan was sideways on the poor salt at 194 mph on the Had a more rounded profile and the rear tire we upgraded to a trueģ00mph LSR 2284 rear tire instead of the 25" Front Runner we usedīefore. To put on a 23" 2283 front tire instead of the previous 21" LSR tire Mike had chosen as It was bye, bye $1300.00 on the second purchase. New 2284 LSR rear tire pictured left above. Sell us two) as we had before, and a rear same as we had before.Then we decided not to use them. No they do not have them at Costco.Īctually ended up buying five new tires.Two fronts (they would only We are now running the two tires circled above in the Goodyear Eagle Have better rubber and perhaps the only motorcycle with truly certified The poorer salt conditions and an even higher speed 300 mph LSR rear The decision was made to go to a taller front to better handle Three new tires above were purchased and then we decided not to use Which makes it sort of show up in the salt and see what happens The handling and no attempt was ever made to get the bike on a dyno Other Speed Events.Perhaps with tire failure as one of the factors.ĭecision in 1992 was to design his BullettĪround tires that would be safe. Motorcycles have crashed and people have died in There have been crashes at Bonneville due to tire failures,Īnd numerous instances of tires chunking with Z-Rated tires running Does getīullett is about the only long course (>175 MPH) motorcycle thatĪctually has legal tires in the eyes if the SCTA-BNI Bonneville Weathering, we decided to put on new rubber for safety reasons. After spinning the rear tire at over 260 MPH,īouncing through some deep ruts at 194 MPH, and plus the effects of Gaining licenses for the Long Course, and setting a 200 MPH Record that The second set was used for the initial running, Jones to balance and prep the new tires and to round the front tire forīetter handling. Were cut in half for close inspection of the thickess of the rubber in 2008 at They became weathered during the long build process and Set of these Goodyear LSR 300 MPH tires was used for the construction Heel restraint we placed on the right floorboard to keep Bryan's leg It is often said " Put someting exciting between your legs".
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