TIRES spell the difference between getting there and getting nowhere. And in places where getting stuck is not a particularly appealing option—the back country of the Sierra Madre range, for instance—these rubber donuts’ ability to grip is key to getting out of there. (Preferably, that’s back to the twisty mountain road that leads to the city, the same road over which sanity dictates one should have stuck to in the first place.)
Apparently, Wheel Gallery, seller of numerous high-end brands of alloy rims and tires, did not exactly have sanity on top of mind when it recently decided to demonstrate the capabilities of its new tire brand on pavement and—more important—on rugged, mucky, sandy terrain. And so it engaged the services of Beeboy Bargas of Landcraft Inc. (an off-road events company) to lead through the narrow, winding paths of Tanay, Rizal, a quintet of four-wheel drive Toyota trucks that have been fitted with Black Rhino wheels and Saffiro Tires.