Spiny Norman's Comfortable Runabout Vehicle

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They may not be any good if you go seriously off road, but in our dilapidated, potholed roads, I bet it's great. Decent sidewalls to soak up the bumps. No low-profile tyres to gather pinch punctures, and at least if you do get a puncture, you have a full-size spare!

[Spiny Norman]

20 hours ago, 2flags said:

They may not be any good if you go seriously off road, but in our dilapidated, potholed roads, I bet it's great. Decent sidewalls to soak up the bumps. No low-profile tyres to gather pinch punctures, and at least if you do get a puncture, you have a full-size spare!

That was also one of the key requirements of whatever I bought, that it should either have big chunky SUV-ish tyres or at least be sufficiently base model not to have 35 profiles on huge alloys.  The SLK has 97mm of sidewall, this has 151mm, softer springs and far more suspension travel.
It's well known that Glasgow's streets are in an appalling state and in the SLK I was actually getting back pain due to tensing up every 10-20 seconds anticipating the KER-WHUMP it took through the hard riding Mercedes.


 

[Spiny Norman]

Minor update on this. Unsurprisingly for a 23 year old Honda, absolutely fuck all has gone wrong with it in the few months I've had it so as a reward for not shafting me I treated it to a new set of boots today.
I'd never been entirely happy with the mix of 4 different brands of Chinese ditchfinders on it, even less so that one of them was a van tyre so I've been keeping an eye for a good deal on some half decent all seasons rubber and on Tuesday noticed Blackcircles had a deal on Yokohama Geolandars, which get great reviews so I went for it and got them fitted this morning.
Bring on the OMGSNOKAOS! 😛

[Spiny Norman]

MOT today, straight pass with no advisories. 😎

I rarely update this thread because there's never anything to report, it's a Honda and it just keeps proceeding. The nearest thing to a problem I had was a leaking valve on one of the tyres a few weeks ago, fixed for a tenner.