You've gotta be shitting me... again!

[McJim]

Whenever I've had new tyres the fellas fitting them have always stressed how dodgy tyres are until they're scrubbed in. They are full of anecdotal stories of how many people have binned their bike within sight of the shop.

I like the idea of dropping a psi or two as well - that sounds logical to me. Might try that next time.

[Joni]

Kneescraper - I have removed all posts not related to your thread.

Sorry to hear about you dropping the bike... again...

Be safe.

[kneescraper]

hehehe all good Joni, life rides on.

[inlinefour]

Kneescraper - I have removed all posts not related to your thread.

Sorry to hear about you dropping the bike... again...

Be safe.

Who is to decide what is related? All I'm doing is relating my experience to Kneescraper's. really whats the point??? So back onto the topic it goes (whatever that means), sorry to hear about ya off also Kneescraper...

[Brian d marge]

i sold a brand new " Busa at Colemans.. the pretty black and purple one

it was raining slightly when the owner came to pick it up andd he had decided to forgo the insurance i had offed him because he paid cash


they had recently painted a new yellow line down the street in front of the shop...

wasnt pretty..$6000 damage .. 4 metres off the showroom floor

edit .. there seems to be a trend from leaving Colemans bwahahahah

Same here I was a mech when the VFR came out ... at least my guy got to the end of the drive way !!!!

Stephen

[kneescraper]

Hahahah agreed IN4, cheers mate

Its all love in KB

[Monsterbishi]

When I'm in a hurry with a new tyre, I just take steel wool with me to the shop, a quick scrub of the tyre to take the shine off it, I baby it home and then give it some abuse going up and down my (gravel) driveway, gratuitous wheelspin for the rear, pulsing lockups for the front.

Looks crazy, both at the shop and on my driveway, but it gets the tyre ready for daily use in under a hour.

[kneescraper]

When I'm in a hurry with a new tyre, I just take steel wool with me to the shop, a quick scrub of the tyre to take the shine off it, I baby it home and then give it some abuse going up and down my (gravel) driveway, gratuitous wheelspin for the rear, pulsing lockups for the front.

Looks crazy, both at the shop and on my driveway, but it gets the tyre ready for daily use in under a hour.

Heheheh sounds like great fun, do the stones not damage the tyre some what? Also if I tried that I would prob end up on my arse.

[Monsterbishi]

I wouldn't recommend it to inexperienced riders, I've had 15 years of seat time to perfect it :-)

The loose gravel basicly does a more thorough job of what the steel wool does, pulls the oils/graease off.

[kneescraper]

I see, well I think I will leave it for a few years. I can do a gravel burnout ehehehe. Strange that Ive never heard of the problems with new tyres before, real interesting ways to rid the problem too

[Monsterbishi]

Most good tyre shops will remind you about needing to break in the new tyre when they give the bike back to you, after a few years it becomes ingrained so even if they forget to mention it, you remember instead.

[kneescraper]

Well I can tell you, it's ingrained into my brain, albeit small brain....dropping ya pride and joy does that to you!!!