nicholastanguma
Los Angeles, San Francisco
Among the aircooled VW and general buggy crowds the most prevalent aesthetic trend for the last 60 years has been big rear tires and small front tires. Makes for a cool stance, undeniably. However, whenever I see these buggy people traveling overland, even in uber remote places like the Moroccan Sahara or the Alaskan frontier or the Australian Outback, they keep the big-n-little tires and thus don't bother carrying a spare tire. Like motorcycle adventurers, their only tire backup is a well-stocked plug kit.
This seems deliberately underprepared to me, yet these great folks just keep on truckin into the vast overland wildernesses year after year; there's a group of French Manx buggy enthusiasts that drive from France down to the Sahara on an annual basis, constantly without spare tires.
So is a good tire plug kit really all that's necessary with today's modern tires, and I'm just being needlessly paranoid on behalf of other people, or are they indeed being willfully naive by traveling without a spare tire?
This seems deliberately underprepared to me, yet these great folks just keep on truckin into the vast overland wildernesses year after year; there's a group of French Manx buggy enthusiasts that drive from France down to the Sahara on an annual basis, constantly without spare tires.
So is a good tire plug kit really all that's necessary with today's modern tires, and I'm just being needlessly paranoid on behalf of other people, or are they indeed being willfully naive by traveling without a spare tire?