<VV> New "stock" tires for LM's

mark at noakes.com mark at noakes.com
Wed Mar 25 22:59:50 EDT 2020


S is the speed rating. R is for radial. All of the other tires in the 
Vredestein Sprint Classic series are radials with various speed ratings 
including SR, VR, and HR. Odd size now but not in the 1960s in the US.

Mark N

On 3/25/20 9:44 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
> The SR will be a speed rating. I've never seen anything but bias ply 
> in inches and radials in mm - but that is in England of course. And 
> the diameter is always in inches, with one specific exception and I 
> can't remember what that was now. 6.40 x 13 has to be a very unusual 
> size. 6.40 x 15 was common at one time - again in the UK - but I've 
> never seen a 6.40 tire with a smaller diameter than that.



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