[Bob Carriere]

Price wise you usually get what you pay for.....

A brand new recent manufactured 900x20 is about $170 US in 8 ply...
...a 1100x20 in 12 ply at $235.00 US.....plus shipping and the heavier the carcass will cost more.

Be careful with the brand new tire that still has the molding tits on them when they are off a spare tire from a trailer..... they may be seriously dried up.....cracking may not show up at first...... any tire that is being sold at 1/3 of the new cost.....unless in very large quantities it is tooo good to be true. The cheaper ones are usually older and may even appear sound when looking at them.... check for evidence they have been removed from a rim.... you will see some wear marks on the bead....or rust and tears similar to an old CMP tire.

Older casing may be fine for a local parade or they may be more historically accurate..... BUT .... don't trust them for any kind of highway driving.

I have used an original 1943 bar thread mounted on a 900x16 battle wheel on a Dodge M43 ambulance..... it gave very good traction on the front axle.... it was a spare that had never been used..... we used the ambulance to plow a large garage lot..... after a particular snow clearing session.... remember this is Canadian Winter so the tire could not really get very hot. I finished the job...parked it by the garage front door and went inside.... I closed the door and something went bang like a shotgun..... we ran outside and half the tube had come out of a perfectly exploded rosette on the side wall..... never again.

I kept that old battle wheel with the tire carcass still mounted on it....

It is unfortunate that shipping is so high for you guys in Australia.

Boob