The last rear I put on was a new brand for me. My usual tentative ride through town and then the 75 k ride home on highway has always been enough to have it well scuffed up enough but a hundred k's later it was still letting go a bit. It was still bloody near shiny. I sanded fuck out of it and it was cool. My girl had the same tyre put on hers and it was scrubbed in almost immediately. No rhyme nor reason to that. Funny and amazing things tyres. All that technology and weight and expectation riding on them comes down to a 50mm patch of one sticking to the road, constantly. A big ask if they have slippery shit still on them from off the shelf.
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