Bernard3rd
01-28-2019, 12:07 AM
Hi all,
I had parked my recently purchased ATC 185s in the garage over the summer, and basically didn't pay much attention to it for the duration of the Summer - occasionally starting and running it at idle, but not riding it. I live in Chandler, AZ, and it is typically too hot to ride much in the Summer. It has basically new tires, and in taking it out after Summer was over, the tires had flat spots on them. I don't recall this having been an issue for our 3 wheelers when I was a kid and lived in Kansas, and I think that they may have gone months without having been ridden... Is this a Desert Phenomenon? I suspect that temps in the garage can get up to 110 or more in the Summer, and probably rarely go below 100 degrees from May to October or so. My theory is that this maybe is harder on the tires than in cooler climates...
Do any of the rest of you in the Southwest have experience with this - flat spots on the tires?
I have a Harbor Freight ATV lift, and I think that I may just lift it and leave it slightly suspended to store it for the Summer this year.
Any experiences similar?
I had parked my recently purchased ATC 185s in the garage over the summer, and basically didn't pay much attention to it for the duration of the Summer - occasionally starting and running it at idle, but not riding it. I live in Chandler, AZ, and it is typically too hot to ride much in the Summer. It has basically new tires, and in taking it out after Summer was over, the tires had flat spots on them. I don't recall this having been an issue for our 3 wheelers when I was a kid and lived in Kansas, and I think that they may have gone months without having been ridden... Is this a Desert Phenomenon? I suspect that temps in the garage can get up to 110 or more in the Summer, and probably rarely go below 100 degrees from May to October or so. My theory is that this maybe is harder on the tires than in cooler climates...
Do any of the rest of you in the Southwest have experience with this - flat spots on the tires?
I have a Harbor Freight ATV lift, and I think that I may just lift it and leave it slightly suspended to store it for the Summer this year.
Any experiences similar?