Don’t Blame Us. Interesting info we’ve come across
Travelling, interacting with other travellers and reading the adventures of like minded folk we often come across titbits and the like from sources other than our own personal experience. Some of this transfer of knowledge is potentially worthy of passing on. We thought long and hard about pumping up our own tyres and just claiming other peoples ideas as our own, but thought better of it when it suddenly dawned on us that these ideas might not actually work.
So its with a healthy dose of All Care, But No Responsibility that we add the following
How To Handle A Tyre Blowout
This wasnt something I was aware of, and it certainly came as a surprise to me. There is one right and many wrong ways to handle a tyre blowout and I was staggered to discover that credible and researched info about this was tucked away in the depths of the InterGoogleWeb.
The Michelin tyre company has researched what they refer to as rapid tyre deflation and established a correct and safe way to handle a blowout, and that generally our collective instant and automatic response is the polar opposite of what we should do in the event of a blowout. The below video and link explain why we need to resist the overwhelming desire to brake hard, and actually do the opposite. I would urge everyone, particularly all of us caravaners to watch the video.