[KingLudd]

Levis made in USA - exactly the size I wanted.

Big Japanese motorcycles with chain drive, headers, velocity stacks running on leaded gas (and inexpensive rear tires)

[rlmorel]

Funny-now that I think of it (and I could be wrong) wasn’t the Seventies when the nearly full transition on passenger cars away from bias-ply towards radial tires took place?

I remember being so hard up that I purchased re-treads, which were okay for a few thousand miles, but always seemed to give out early.

Now, I wonder-what happened to all those companies that had been making re-tread tires for decades?

I presume you cannot make re-treads out of radial tires, since, except for truck tires, I don’t think anyone uses bias-ply tires anymore. (for passenger vehicles, at least)

[MarkL]

Big Japanese motorcycles with chain drive, headers, velocity stacks running on leaded gas (and inexpensive rear tires)

There was a local Kawasaki shop that I'd go into and drool over a racing green KZ-1000R Eddie Lawson Replica, with factory Kerker header and exhaust! And reading magazines, dreaming of the elegance of a round-case, bevel gear Ducati SS750!

Mark