Flat tyres

[Loki]

I’ve just driven 82 miles north on the m6 and counted 49 complete tyre treads, full tyres and entire wheels just on the n side. That’s 49 vehicles recently driving with one wheel less than they thought they had on a pretty short section of road!
Is that mildly terrifying?

 

[Loki]

I should clarify they were all lying in the centre reservation or on the grass or in hard shoulder.

 

[pwhole]

I sometimes wonder if it's the driving equivalent of the single old boot found in many lead mines. We drove from Sheffield up the M18/M62 to Goole today and I must have seen at least 30 tyres in a similar situation in each direction. Mind you, when I pointed out to the driver how many there were, he hadn't noticed any of them. At least he's concentrating on the road!

 

[alanw]

the single old boot found in many lead mines

Flanders and Swann: Bedstead Men "You'll always find a single laceless left-hand leather boot" as well as "three treadless tyres"

 

[tomferry]

These chaps left a lot more than that .

Didn’t even finish their gin

 

[Flotsam]

Some years ago when caving in the Julian Alps between Yugoslavia and Italy we found lots of old boots on what used to be a WW1 battlefield, You could also see where shells had burst on the crags.

 

[Ian Ball]

It's an interesting thing, I thought it was because the glue used to stick on the treads melted if they go too fast.

 

[tomferry]

Makes me laugh thinking of them drinking gin at the working face . I wonder why they left a half full bottle their could obviously be other things inside, I didn’t want to touch the cork to smell it as it would perish .

 

[wormster]

I went all the way from Oxford to Canterbury and back today, I didn’t see more than a handful of tyres (mostly shredded van/truck type) perhaps it says something about T’hardness of the road “Opp North”, compared with softy shandy drinking Southern roads. Either that or around the M40, M25 etc it’s a stricter clean up policy.

 

[pwhole]

Yesterday we did the M1 from Nottingham to Sheffield, and I literally lost count before we even got to Bolsover, and I wasn't driving - I'm guessing over 30. At one point I saw five in less than a mile. Most had silt/gravel buildup on their leading side, meaning you couldn't see them as well from the driver's position - if you hit that lot at 70 mph you'd know about it.