Tyres....Radial, bias-ply or cross-ply?

[Tom Coates]

I have blockleys on my car and they seem to hold the road very well, although I don't have anything else to make a direct comparison. The only problem I have is that they seem very hard and don't really absorb road shocks even when run fairly soft. My father finds the same on his Chummy.

I am having some new wheels made and plan to fit Longstones which I think are a bit more compliant, although strangely enough David Howe says he found the opposite!

The blockleys also look a bit "low profile" although when I compared dimensions they seem to be pretty much identical to Longstones so its possibly an optical illusion created by the finer tread?