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From: mlf@teddy.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Snow Traction
Message-ID: <1147@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:37:48 EST
Article-I.D.: teddy.1147
Posted: Fri Jan 11 08:37:48 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:37:30 EST
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Reply-To: mlf@teddy.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

>As a kid in Michigan, I took an old tire and pushed thumbtacks through the
>tread about an inch apart.

   He presumably means from the _inside_ of the tire to the _outside_,
so that the thumbtack heads are between the tube and the tire, and the
points come out to give traction.

   Any other way is flat wrong!

-- 

					Matt Fichtenbaum
					"Our job is to rescue fires,
					not put out your cat."