Bucket bits wanted & services needed

[Drew]

Wets are a much softer compound as they are designed to be cooled by surface water.
Slicks aren't really soft enough and won't get warm enough to be effective.

Find some wets.

Run them down around 15psi. Not overly stable, but...Well, look at ost buckets.

[koba]

Run them down around 15psi. Not overly stable, but...Well, look at ost buckets.

Most buckets run well at around 18 or so in the dry!
Works well, depending on all sorts of other factors of course.

Bridgestones seem to like a bit more pressure in the dry, perhaps making them a better starting point for a poor-mans wet when run low and grooved heaps?

[Henk]

Tend to run wets a couple of PSI higher than slicks, getting the tread blocks standing out a bit more seems more effective than getting heat into them.

[husaberg]

Tend to run wets a couple of PSI higher than slicks, getting the tread blocks standing out a bit more seems more effective than getting heat into them.

I have ran slicks in the rain with no issues.
I am from somewhere it really rains too.
Not so good in puddles though but still better than road tires.

I do have wets now though.

[Henk]

For all those out there saying "slicks are fine in the wet" I'd agree pretty much everywhere but Mt Wellington which seems to be the slipperiest track in the world in the wet.

[F5 Dave]

close, but no. that'd be Sheriffs road Palmy norf kart track. A bad weather forecast on the radio & you'd be off.

[Captian soup]

shit you gotta be quick around here dont ya?
i have some "drunken cut" slicks, and they are.... interesting to say the least. no offence to the drunkn cutter **COUGHhenkCOUGH**
i found a couple on tard me around the $100-150 mark but the sizes dont add up.
Cheers anyway back to the drawing board...or Henks shed, bet you could find a leprechaun in there...

[cotswold]

Wets are a much softer compound as they are designed to be cooled by surface water.
Slicks aren't really soft enough and won't get warm enough to be effective.

Find some wets.

You are right but wets for a $100 may not be easy to find

[koba]

I have ran slicks in the rain with no issues.
I am from somewhere it really rains too.
Not so good in puddles though but still better than road tires.

For all those out there saying "slicks are fine in the wet" I'd agree pretty much everywhere but Mt Wellington which seems to be the slipperiest track in the world in the wet.

I know you guys know it already but yeah, while slicks in the wet aren't the instant suicide some people seem to think they are, they also can't compete with wets.

[husaberg]

I know you guys know it already but yeah, while slicks in the wet aren't the instant suicide some people seem to think they are, they also can't compete with wets.

I thought we were only allowed to Half Quote Dave. The last part of my Quote kind of hints towards the path of Bucket nirvana.

I have ran slicks in the rain with no issues.
I am from somewhere it really rains too.
Not so good in puddles though but still better than road tires.

I do have wets now though.

Ban the tire warmer though (unless i find some cheap)

[Henk]

I know you guys know it already but yeah, while slicks in the wet aren't the instant suicide some people seem to think they are, they also can't compete with wets.

Is that why you call wets. "poofer tyres" ?

[Pumba]

Is that why you call wets. "poofer tyres" ?

No. That is because he doesn't have any.

[richban]

Most buckets run well at around 18 or so in the dry!
Works well, depending on all sorts of other factors of course.

Bridgestones seem to like a bit more pressure in the dry, perhaps making them a better starting point for a poor-mans wet when run low and grooved heaps?

27 front 30 rear with my slicks. 30 front and rear with wets. Bridgestones. If you run low pressure with wets the groves close up when the tire distorts and turns them back into slicks. Opps. Takes a bit of time to find your happy place but worth playing around with pressure. Can save you lots of dosh on ripped up rubber.

[koba]

If you run low pressure with wets the groves close up when the tire distorts and turns them back into slicks.

I gerfots about that.

[chrisc]

The GL145 currently has 3.25 bridgestone K7105s on the rear which are shitty but have good tread. Something along the lines of this.Fronts are 2.75 Cheng shin nylons :/ ,great.
My CG125 has a 100x80 17 contigo on the rear which I might have to steal for the bucket.
I don't want to spend much money on this thing but want to at least swap to 17s, do you guys think im better off just finding some second hand spoked wheels like the xr200 someone mentioned before or is there some better alloys I could adapt for not a lot more money. I'm not looking for the widest wheels possible, just something wider than what I have that will let me run half decent tires, it is a stock GL145 afterall.

About the stickiest 18s you will find are BT39ss but they are more expensive and less sticky than second hand slicks, the reason for all the wheel conversions.
Let us know what is on it at the moment and head out on them in the meantime if they aren't too crap.