alan bechard Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Anyone have one of those electric heated knife thingys to groove / cut tires with? Care to lend it out? Or cut up a tire for me? Or know who would? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliechitlins Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 I saw a home-made one once. Looked a lot like a soldering iron with a tip that had a 90 degree angle in it for shaving the leading edge of knobs. The guys that I used to see grooving their own tires were the hotshoe guys. You might want to find some of them. Ask Stoodley...he messes with all kinds of wacky stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtt Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 What are you cutting Alan? A trials tire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the artist formerly known as ish Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Keep in mind, it's against the rules to cut/sype em, not much point practicing with them then getting excluded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan bechard Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Weeeelllllll,,,,, New rule on me, but whatever, I am positive that neither STRA nor TI would exclude Dean for riding on a modified Cheng Shin Tire. The thought was that if I cut a 1/4" or so groove through the middle of each knob, it would effectively double the number of knobs and give me some flex room between them for better cleaning action. I think it would be closer to the Monty type bicycle trials tire, lots of little knobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan bechard Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Well, on a tip from Charlie, that made me think of Curt, that pointed me in the direction of the Dirt track stock car guys, that happen to have one of the large distributors here in town. Sooooooo,,,, A quick call to them, brand new one $60 with an assortment of knives / blades.... Plenty in stock, just waiting to be added to the tool junky's collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliechitlins Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Yup...them roundy-round guys is always slicin' up their tires. Good luck with the Cheng Shin...we used to call them something different by changing the last letter to one very close to 's' and 'u'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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