Maxxis Motorcycle Tires

By Dove Lyle

Choosing the right tire for your specific application can be a tough process. To help with your selection, we've compiled a list of the most popular Maxxis ATV and motorcycle tires along with their intended application.

Maxxis ATV Tires

The Bighorn ATV Tire is one of the most popular Maxxis tires. This ATV tire features large widely spaced lugs allowing you to traverse rocky desert terrain with ease. This is a 6 ply Maxxis tire for maximum puncture resistance. Sidewall lugs also help to protect the sidewall and your wheels.

The Maxxis Mudzilla ATV Tire is (obviously) geared toward mud riding. This is also a 6 ply Maxxis ATV tire and features a unique rubber composition for longer wear. For more budget friendly mud Maxxis tires, check out the Mud Bug.

Lastly, the Maxxis Razr tire is well-suited for intermediate terrain. This is a favorite tire among racers. This tire features, smaller closer lugs for maximum traction in versatile dirt conditions. If you are looking for a high quality replacement for your OEM tires, this is it.

You can expect to spend in the neighborhood of $150 for a high quality ATV tire. Be sure to shop around for the best price as they vary quite a bit. Additionally, you can usually find good deals on Maxxis tires online.

Maxxis Motorcycle Tires

For dual sport applications, you'll want to look at the M series Maxxis tire. These have a unique compound to give you performance both on and off-road. For an off-road use Maxxis tire, you will be choosing from the following: IT, HT, ST, and CI series tires. Of this group, the IT is the strongest tire and is designed for the varied conditions. The HT is a hart terrain Maxxis tire and the ST series Maxxis tire is designed for soft sand and mud riding.

Lastly, the CI series Maxxis tire is designed for intermediate terrain. This is the best all-around Maxxis motorcycle tire and a good OEM replacement tire.

There are 5 different types of street Maxxis motorcycle tires. The Supermaxx tires are designed for speed and performance. These are great sportbike tires. Classic and Promaxx are intermediate tires offering a good balance of wear and performance. Touring Maxxis tires are built with heavier bikes in mind. These are great for cruisers.

Although Maxxis tires are moderately priced, it is important to shop around before purchasing. You can usually find good deals on Maxxis tires online.

Lyle Dove is an avid motorcyclist who enjoys all aspects of the sport including motocross and road racing. When he's not out riding, he spends his time writing articles on the sport he loves. - 21392

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Tips When Buying San Diego Repossessed RVs

By Davion Wong

If you are living in California's second largest city, San Diego, you know that while it can be fun and exciting it can also be stressful. How you long for breaks where you can relax and enjoy some peace and quiet. Very often, you need to go out of town to be able to experience these, thus it becomes practical to own a recreational vehicle. Then again, recreational vehicles require a huge investment, so here's a cheaper option --- San Diego repossessed RVs.

Because of global recession, today's economy is a bit uncertain and many RVS are repossessed. This is a great time to buy repossessed RVS and a great way to save money. Look for a repossessed RVS in good condition for an excellent price.

So you can get the best price on repossessed RVs of San Diego, you need to deal directly with authorized franchise or independent dealers, rental car companies, car leasing companies, used car superstores, or certain financial institutions. Then you must make sure to take a thorough look at the RV first before buying it. If you don't know what to look out for, better ask a mechanic to take a look at it for you.

Keep in mind that the law does not require dealers to have a return policy. However, if you happen to stumble on a dealer who offers a sort of cooling off period during which time you may be allowed to cancel your purchase, make sure that it is written down in black and white.

The California Used Car Lemon Law allows the selling of San Diego repossessed RVs provided that they are to be used for personal or private use only and they must come with a written warranty. You can also be entitled to a refund or replacement of the item or even cash compensation under the Lemon Law Compensation program within 18 months from the date of purchase.

In the event that you buy a used car without any warranty at all, that car will not be covered by the California Used Car Lemon Law.

Being informed of your own protection and security as a consumer is very important as you wouldn't want to be in a situation when problems arise after a big purchase.

Know what you are getting into when buying San Diego repossessed RVs. Visit my site and I'll show you more ways you can buy repossessed RVs. - 21392

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Memories Of A Used Jeep

By Gregory Paul

I spent my elementary years in a rustic place in the highlands of a mountainous province in the Philippines. It wasn't that far but because of the road conditions back then, the nearest city is about 6 hours away, and it would take 8 hours to reach my hometown.

My grandfather was a former city boy who later in his life opted and has grown to love rural living. About once a month he would take us back to our city hometown to visit our relatives. Back in the city during those days, I would envy those who were in cars with rolled up windows and air conditioning. I would often dream of one day traveling and arriving in my hometown in a brand new automobile enclosed and protected from dust and heat.

You can imagine how astonishing it is for me, to hear people and friends approach my grandpa and talk to him about his amazing jeep, how quick and easy it is for us to get to our hometown from where we came from. I would hear them say that they would be willing to trade their automobiles for my grandpa's jeep. Are they crazy? They have a brand new rig, and ours was a second hand contraption.

That old jeep was purchased second hand by my grandfather. Firstly, he had it repainted a deep brown shade for a new look. Originally, the jeep didn't have comfortable front seats so grandpa found some seats of an old car and had it reupholstered.

The trips we had with that jeep were really long ones. Grandpa always got gasoline rations from his company, and sometimes would receive gifts in the form of gasoline rations from some uncles. He had that kind of effect on people. A lot of guys always wanted to please him and make him happy. The original gasoline tank that didn't hold so much just wouldn't do so he installed this tank from an old truck. It ate up all of the front row area under the seats.

Grandpa had leather roofings installed on the jeep. He had a little electric fan connected to the ride, and installed his portable miniature television set to it. Despite me wanting a new car so much back then, I have to admit we did have an awesome ride.

That jeep has been with us since I was in the third grade. I remember grandpa taking me to the airport in the rig when I was leaving to attend college in the capital region. By then it has been with us for a decade already. When I came home after graduation, my grandfather was already too old to make the trip. The jeep was still with him though.

It might have been a used jeep when we got it, but it gave our family service that eclipsed all other vehicles that we ever had. It has exceeded all expectations when it came to performance, and the memories we shared with that old timer is far more cherished than any other car we had.

It is true that a used car that is cared and loved for holds a greater value than anything you could buy new. Ours gave us the ride of our lives. - 21392

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The Importance Of Short Term Car Insurance

By Max Pendleford

Short term car insurance is very convenient for people who have a short term need and don't want it to affect a policy that they may have in effect on another vehicle. If your car is garaged in a location affected by strong winds or cyclones, a short term policy can be a very good thing to have.

If you obtain short term car insurance for hurricane season, and your car becomes damaged or ruined during the coverage period, the repair costs or the replacement of the vehicle is covered. As the US falls victim to many natural disasters annually, it can benefit you to have short term car insurance.

When renting a car, the insurance that is issued on the car's contract often only covers the person renting the car. You can get short term car insurance for this rental car if you want to protect it, or if you have several people using the car and want to cover them as well. This is an important benefit if the driving will take place in regions of the country or cities that the drivers may not be familiar with.

In some cities there is a very high incident of accidents because traffic is very heavy and the drivers don't obey all of the rules of the road. It doesn't help matters that a lot of are tourists who aren't used to driving there and do not know the roads. You can protect yourself against any accidents that may happen as you use this rental car with short term car insurance. Therefore, insurance premiums will not increase for you or your driving buddies.

People who are visiting the US can often be confused by the different rules of the road. Driving in the United States can often be very different and even counter-intuitive to people who drive in other countries. Unfamiliarity with our driving policies can be a major distraction for foreign visitors. By taking out a short term car insurance policy on a driver who is brand new to driving in the United States, any damage to the vehicle they are in will be covered. They are going to be able to relax with the knowledge that if they are in an accident while in the United States they are not going to have to deal with a system they do not understand.

If you plan to drive a car for a short period of time or drive it from one point to another, taking out a short term policy is an excellent idea to provide coverage while the car is being driven. Remember, if an accident does occur, a short term policy covers all car repairs or the replacement of the vehicle without affecting the insurance rates that are associated with your regular automobile policy. - 21392

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Who's To Blame For High Prices In The OTR Tire Markets?

By Kurt Hartman

Over the past two years, there have been alarming price increases in OTR(off-the-road) tire markets.

Everybody seems to have an answer: It's the manufacturer, the tire dealer, the gray market, the Chinese, global warming....the dog ate my tires.

I have my own opinion on all of this, and I blame everyone (and everything) but the dog (I don't own one) and global warming (which is just a natural temperature cycle that repeats itself every hundred years or so: this is a subject for another day).

Let's start with an obvious choice for blame: the Manufacturers.

The basic argument goes something like this: Bridgestone (Michelin, Goodyear, any name will do) should have seen third-world development coming, and increased their production capacity accordingly.

In addition, they caved to the demands of mines, and committed to tire allocation and price contracts that did not allow for any expansion in the markets.

This leaves the authorized dealer's for manufacturer product out in the cold, because the manufacturers, by-and-large, have not signed OTR allocation contracts with their dealers.

Then, to rub salt in the wound, each of the manufacturers raise pricing by 3-7% at will.

So who do the manufacturer's blame: The Dealers.

Now, this seems like a counterintuitive way to do business. Blame the people who sell your tires, give them very little of the product they demand, and then raise pricing arbitrarily.

Nevertheless, this is the manufacturer's argument. The dealers sell to and buy from the gray market. When you think about it, what other option do they have?

The manufacturer can't give you what you need, and has not committed to do anything of the sort. Somebody else has gone to the trouble of buying those tires for you, and charges you a premium for that service. You, in turn, pass that cost along to your customers.

What the manufacturers should be most worried about is the pricing that some dealers give to the gray market traders. Pricing that is marked up 50-250% above cost, starts gray market pricing at an artificially high level.

How much can you blame a dealer, really?

He has to include in his pricing profits that justify the risk of reduced allocation(by the Manufacturer) and risk losing his ability to sell all of their other products(including their passenger and light truck tires).

The Dealers argue that the ban on sales to the gray market puts them at peril, and if the risk of loss was not so high, that their prices would be more reasonable.

To make myself clear, only some dealers engage in these sort of sales practices, so it can only be a small piece of the problem.

So again, the Dealers blame the Manufacturers. Who do you blame next? The next guy in-line on the food chain. (Cue diabolical laughter) The Gray Market Traders. You can almost hear the barely contained rage when any manufacturer speaks about these people.

Who are they really? They are the children of Adam Smith, an enterprise born out of the necessity of the market to fill the need for supply.

What do they do? They find tires that the customer wants, and sell them to the customers that need them. Now, this seems like an easy task, but is made harder for a few simple reasons:

1.)Demand is greater(far greater, in some cases) than supply.

2.) Manufacturers are constantly trying to shut down the limited supply available.

3.)Many Dealers will not sell to the Traders.

4.)The prices quoted are not what a customer wants to pay.

How did these people get a bad reputation?

If you talk to a Dealer or a Trader, you will get more than a few answers, but the majority distill down to these:

1.)They quoted outrageous pricing. Usually these traders are to far removed from the actual tire seller to give reasonable prices. If you have to go through 5 people to get to the owner of the tire, you are not going to get great pricing.

2.)They didn't know what they were talking about. Anywhere there is profit, someone will jump on to make a fast buck. The OTR industry is not immune to this phenomenon. Dealers can suffer a high price from someone who is knowledgeable, but when someone who doesn't know a grader from a haul truck does the same, it rightfully makes them upset.

3.)Territories. The manufacturers have built up territories that protect the Dealers from poaching by other Dealers. When supplies were plentiful, this helped Dealers. Now, this can keep a dealer from making a sale. The dealers don't dare sell out of territory. Guess who tramples roughshod over territories, without fear of the manufacturers? If you said Traders, here's a cookie.

While neither Dealer nor Manufacturer will say it up front(although they might admit it privately), they need the Traders. Why? Well, despite the risks involved for the Dealer, there are high profits to be made by selling to the Traders. If you are a Manufacturer, who is going to complain about a 15% increase in price over the course of a year, when tires are being marked up 50-250% over invoice.

By selling to the Traders, both Dealer and Manufacturer exploit a clause that allows them to blow off warranty claims, warranties which are practically useless to the consumer due to numerous escape clauses in the fine print.

By blaming the Traders, both Dealers and Manufacturers can escape the scrutiny of the end user. In the 90's, the line was "It's the economy, stupid." The OTR Industry echoes with the unified call "It's the Gray Market, stupid. So who's left in this circle of pointing fingers: The Chinese.

Why is China such a threat? It isn't really, at this juncture. This is how the Manufacturers would like to keep it. The average Chinese OTR Tire at this time is laughable, and cheap. The engineering is poor, and Chinese tires are not made in the most popular flavor of OTR, radial.

Yet the manufacturers continue to engage in anti-competitive action against a small threat. Bridgestone, Titan(who owns Continental), and the United Steel Workers have brought suit against China for flooding the market with tires. Now, while this may be true, there is only one problem with this reasoning. OTR users will not buy Chinese tires. Well, except for the markets in Mexico, who run them because of the cost.

The Chinese have cut their own throats in this area. They brought a poor product to market, without adequate quality controls in place, and they evidently didn't bother to consult German or Japanese engineers. If they had done these things, the Big 3 (Bridgestone, Michelin, and Goodyear) might be slashing their prices. Right now they are ensuring that they don't have to in the future.

So why do I even mention the Chinese? If the Chinese ever get their act together, and produce a semi-reliable radial product, they could take a large share of the major manufacturer's business.

Who takes the lion's share of the blame in this? The free market. Not the gray market, the dealers, or even the manufacturers, not even the Chinese. - 21392

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