subject: Get It On Fast Boy! The Blizzak Lm-25 Snow Tire [print this page] Bridgestone's Blizzak LM 25 is a higher capacity snow and rain tire optimized for best traction and handling for the most skilled of performance care buyers. The largest downside to a high performance car, whether it is a European performance car, sleek Japanese sports car, or an American cop-beater, is the almost total lack of grip in the winter icy road conditions.
What to do when you have four hundred horsepower and the tires will not put the power down at all? This is not only discouraging, it's absolutely dangerous. That's where the Blizzak LM25 comes in. Bridgestone came out with the first all-rubber snow model of this tire family in '90. In the subsequent 10 years, the company has worked steadily to optimize the tread and base design for maximum performance and reliability. Consequently, these tires are continuously ranked at the top of their competitors, which includes the Continental ExtremeWinterContact, Dunlop Graspic and Michelin X-Ice.
With such a high level of competition, how does the LM25 continue to be at the top? First, this tire is built using Bridgestone's UNI-T glued multi-structural tire design. This commences with a base of durable and accurately molded bottom plies for stability and cushioning. The interior carcass is wrapped in a webbing of robust but flexible nylon which keeps the tire as circular as possible. It doesn't matter what forces are applied, the tire simply adapts and rebounds back to its initial form. This provides ideal rolling resistance, low noise, and tire longevity through bumps, hard cornering, and extended trips. This internal component is then covered with several circumferential metal flat strips made to resist the hardest potholes and supply springiness to the tire.
Next, the base is covered with a stratum of pliable very advanced nano tube multi cell rubber material. Bridgestone produced a synthetic material that includes very small tubes throughout the whole tire area. This coating practically sucks up the thin film of moistness between the contact area and the asphalt. The end result is an ability to develop a high friction contact patch, even in the worst possible weather conditions.
The directional surface shape of the Blizzak LM25 offers immense traction for powerful cars. The tire's 3D tread block structure, with thousands of grooves and sipes at various heights, hugely boosts the accessible biting surfaces. These surface area designs lock and interact everywhere, delivering way more traction in snow and ice. Whenever you put the power floor with these tires, it stays down! Drivers all point out this is the greatest traction they have ever felt in their performance automobile.
Bridgestone snow tires are available in a huge range of low profile dimensions for all wheel diameters from fifteen to eighteen inches. When you look around and research before you buy you'll settle on the Bridgestone Blizzak LM-25 as your snow tire of preference.
