They'll be reduced to using tubes. Probably need three to make a crispy critter.Originally Posted by Swoop
(Is this the epitome of bad taste?)
Immature and proud of it.
They'll be reduced to using tubes. Probably need three to make a crispy critter.
(Is this the epitome of bad taste?)
Speed doesn't kill people.
Stupidity kills people.
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
Nope, not yet, keep going.
My standards are so low they can walk under a snakes arse wearing a top hat.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
In the riders seat
Bridgestone/Firestone have one in Chch but neither them nor SPT have ever made Motorcycle tyres locally
At least 3 different car tyre importers have had price rises as well but nothing like the $$$$ Lou is talking about
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Waa?
I've never seen a snakes ass wearing a top hat...
We all have our little obsessions...
on the up
On a more serious note, the closure of South Pacific Tyres in Upper Hutt doesn't look fabulous for locals.
There's going to be 550 jobs going in our city, out of a population of around 35,000.
South Pacific Tyres was one of the only places where relatively unskilled workers could work a large amount of overtime and earn a decent wage. A number of their workers were earning, with OT, in the region of $45 - 55,000 a year, which is a heck of a lot for unskilled manual workers.
Obviously the company can't compete with Chinese manufacturing prices paying those sort of wages, and being owned by a large multinational corporation they will always attempt to leverage maximum return for shareholders.
What's worrying me is what happens to the families of these workers? These guys will struggle to get the same wages in any other work, and you will see the flow on effects of this for a while here. SPT is the largest single employer in Upper Hutt.
Watch crime rates in Upper Hutt soar over the next year or two...
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
on the wagon
Thanks for the heads up Lou
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I've really hated seeing this happen to our local industries over the last 10 years or more.They can't compete with the cheap imports (and what annoys me even more,is that people still moan about high prices) and factories close.What can the workers do?....at the unemployment desk - ''what is your skill Mr Fallioni?''.....'I'm a tyre laminator/car assembly worker,I've worked for the same company for 20 years'.....''Well,we have no vacancies in that area,but we will retrain you in IT,there are plenty of jobs in that area....''
And I have no right to complain - I buy cheap Chinese tyres to sell to my customer....because the cheap bastards won't pay for a localy made tyre....I have to make the sale to stay in business....Bring back tarrifs and State owned assets.
In the riders seat
If they are like the rest of the Multinational Tyre companies they will be building their own factories in china
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
+1!
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
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