One day I was walking down the street in Nanuyki and just as I passed Settler's Store I happened to look down and see what looked like a tire tread on the ground. This was not a whole tread like you might see on the side of the highway when a retreaded tire lets go. This tread was a single rubber zig zag tread that was less than a quarter inch wide. I could not figure out how in the world a single tread could possibly come off of a tire.
I looked around and saw that these treads were lying all around my feet. How could treads come off tires all in one spot? I was baffled. Later that day, I asked my friend Nyamo what caused the tread to come off the tire. He brought me back to the spot where I found the tread; there under the shade of a small roof were two men with old tires in front of them and knives in their hands. As I watched, they carefully cut new treads into the old, bald tires! As they worked, the left over pieces of tire fell to the ground which I realized were what I had found on the ground earlier that day.