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JC	2005-02-02 10:58 AM

Iowa hates bling...

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=...;u_sid=1318511

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Struyk said he was nearly involved in an accident in November near Bentley, Iowa. He was driving a truck pulling a 16-foot trailer loaded with a dozen ladders. He approached an intersection as a car with the spinning wheel covers approached from another direction. He said the spinners made it appear as if the car might still be moving through the intersection, so he braked hard and the trailer nearly jackknifed.

:lol: :lol:

Nick Koan

2005-02-02 11:03 AM

Hell yeah, ban them here too please.

MattR

2005-02-02 11:05 AM

Sweet...I love simple redneck hill billies. Great strory

Dean	2005-02-02 11:07 AM

Actually, this is very interesting.

Vision is a strange thing, and spinners give your brain 2 conflicting messages for a stopped, slowing or accelerating vehicle. The weighted ones that don't spin also represent the same thing in reverse.

Some scientist needs to get a study going on this. I would bet they generate at least some mixed signals in the brain potentially impacting response time, and/or proper response.

AtomicLabMonkey

2005-02-02 11:22 AM

Spinners are for tards. I'm surprised they don't cause more wrecks like that; I know when I see a car poised to enter traffic, I look at its wheels to see if they're rotating or not so I can tell if it's starting to move.

soggynoodles

2005-02-02 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

I have spinners on my prodrives. :D :lol:

sperry

2005-02-02 11:56 AM

I need to come up with a thick spray that you can douse on a spinner and gum it all to hell. Any ideas? (Soggy, you can just shut up. :p)

MattR

2005-02-02 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by sperry

I need to come up with a thick spray that you can douse on a spinner and gum it all to hell. Any ideas? (Soggy, you can just shut up. :p)

I have a product we use to patch trailer roofs, its like a spray -tar...I guarantee it would end a spinna

soggynoodles

2005-02-02 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by sperry

I need to come up with a thick spray that you can douse on a spinner and gum it all to hell. Any ideas? (Soggy, you can just shut up. :p)

:lol: I'm not touching that.

sperry

2005-02-02 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by soggynoodles

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Originally Posted by sperry

I need to come up with a thick spray that you can douse on a spinner and gum it all to hell. Any ideas? (Soggy, you can just shut up. :p)

:lol: I'm not touching that.

wait for it....

that's what she said.

Dean	2005-02-02 12:30 PM

I'm thinking super glue, or a good handfull of rocks should do the trick on most of them... :)

MikeSTI

2005-02-02 12:54 PM

I dont like the spinners but I have no problem telling if the car is moving or not.............maybe because I can see past the bling :lol:

sperry

2005-02-02 01:52 PM

Talking about Big-O:

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Originally Posted by The Article

The company, based in Los Angeles, has 16 locations nationwide and sells tens of thousands of spinners a year, Kaminski said.

There are only 16 Big-O tire locations nationwide!?

Off the top of my head:
Reno has 2
SLO has 1
Danville/San Ramon has 2
Iowa apparently has 1

I guess I just happen to live in all the towns that have Big-Os. :lol:

Nick Koan

2005-02-02 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by sperry

Talking about Big-O:

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Originally Posted by The Article

The company, based in Los Angeles, has 16 locations nationwide and sells tens of thousands of spinners a year, Kaminski said.

Thats like 1000+ spinners per Big-O locations. Its must be all they sell.

ArthurS

2005-02-02 01:54 PM

Weird....from Big-O's website:

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Store Locator
Over 550 stores to get you back in the race!

JC	2005-02-02 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sperry

Talking about Big-O:

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Originally Posted by The Article

The company, based in Los Angeles, has 16 locations nationwide and sells tens of thousands of spinners a year, Kaminski said.

Reading Comprehension > you

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"We do a lot of them for trucks, Suburbans, Tahoes, a lot of old-school cars with rear-wheel drive," said Brian Kaminski, a salesman for Wheel-One Inc. in St. Paul, Minn.

The company, based in Los Angeles, has 16 locations nationwide and sells tens of thousands of spinners a year, Kaminski said.

sperry

2005-02-02 03:52 PM

Okay I'll admit I missed that, but I didn't totally pull Big-O out of my ass:

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Spinning wheel covers are most popular with customers in their 20s, said Richard Riekeberg, manager of the Big O Tire store in Altoona. He said his store sells about six sets a year, at a cost of $2,000 per set.

dknv	2005-02-02 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

I dislike spinners as well. But - I wonder, are the Ronal daisy wheels, or these teddy bear wheels distracting in any way?

:D

Dean	2005-02-02 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by dknv

I dislike spinners as well. But - I wonder, are the Ronal daisy wheels, or these teddy bear wheels distracting in any way? :D

Nope, they just make the bears dizzy. I still think it would be extremely funny to have those wheels on a really fast car... Unfortunately, no 17s...

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