Here's my response, emailed to John on Wednesday:
I agree with Paul, mudflaps are the way to go. It's a hardscrabble life but that's the nature of being a mudflap--so it's par for the course to get scratched up, splattered, ripped. And the coolest part is when you're done as a mudflap, you can get recycled into your nemesis, the radial tread tire.
Ponder it if you will, and then ask yourself: would I fall all the way through Jupiter?
