If they only save you once a year...

Well we went on our first trip away with the Goodyear MTR's on. We did probally about 40% gravel/off road through the trip. We were hiking along a very smooth but narrow gravel road between Moora and Dalwallinu (I'd been down it one way and turned around to go back (doing some exploring) so I was familer with it and consequently going a little quicker than previously) when a GREAT BIG BLACK COW darted out from the bushes straight torwards the drivers door!

Now I was always told that you NEVER steer/swerve for animals no matter what, you just hit the ancers and hope for the best.
Sorry dad, I swerved like all buggery! It scared the bajesous out of me! I still don't understand how it didn't take the side mirror off, I could see down it's nostrals out the drivers door! But what impressed me the most was the way the MTR's just held on and barley even locked up on the gravel even with hard braking and swerving, just amazing! The back end didn't even slide at all. The desert dulers used to skip around all over the shop even just cruising on gravel, with the MTRs on the surf felt like it was on the tar. It was very good. And just FYI I was running them at the same pressures I used to run the DD's.

So I don't care anymore, I don't care if they only last 30k or if they are noisy on the road or if they aren't as strong as a split rim or if they aren't as good on the beach or that they cost a little more than some of the alternative beause my little baby girl was sitting behind me in her baby seat and didn't even wake up.
So in my eyes they've paid for themselves already.
But I still really enjoyed that first bourbon at camp that night! ;-) I was a little white knuckled after that...