I come from a background in motorcycles where tyre condition is far more important :JPS:
There seems an easy solution to all of this - don't use bald tyres
You know the law - get caught with fecked tyres and you'll pay for it.
If you can't do the time...
FWIW Graham,
I expect everyone knows a bald tyre("and I doubt if we were talking about literally bald") offers better grip in the dry than a treaded tyre (all things such as construction,profile and compound being equal).
The problem comes when 'our' weather decides to change - you're 200 miles from home,driving on superior bald tyres and the heavens open - what then?You carry 4 treaded tyres 'just in case' ?
Hardly likely.
A bald tyre actually offers MORE grip in the wet than a treaded tyre.......up until the point aquaplaning occurs.At this point the bald tyre will offer around 0% of the grip the treaded tyre offers.
I just hope that you aren't behind me when it decides to rain and you're using bald tyres to save a few bob.
As far as 'driving like a knob' is concerned - I agree but that perfectly describes a driver on in-adequate tyres in my opinion.
'Patronizing petrolheads'?
Give me them over cheap + dangerous skin-flints any day mate.
There seems an easy solution to all of this - don't use bald tyres

You know the law - get caught with fecked tyres and you'll pay for it.
If you can't do the time...

FWIW Graham,
I expect everyone knows a bald tyre("and I doubt if we were talking about literally bald") offers better grip in the dry than a treaded tyre (all things such as construction,profile and compound being equal).
The problem comes when 'our' weather decides to change - you're 200 miles from home,driving on superior bald tyres and the heavens open - what then?You carry 4 treaded tyres 'just in case' ?
Hardly likely.
A bald tyre actually offers MORE grip in the wet than a treaded tyre.......up until the point aquaplaning occurs.At this point the bald tyre will offer around 0% of the grip the treaded tyre offers.
I just hope that you aren't behind me when it decides to rain and you're using bald tyres to save a few bob.

As far as 'driving like a knob' is concerned - I agree but that perfectly describes a driver on in-adequate tyres in my opinion.
'Patronizing petrolheads'?
Give me them over cheap + dangerous skin-flints any day mate.