Tyre wear?

[Shorty_925]

Whats the worst tyre anyone has had and seen on a bucket?

Here's a couple of photos from a practice around roys hill yesterday. Cant say ive seen a tyre do this before on a little bike!

[DELLORTO]

thats pretty bad, you should up your tire pressure

[Shorty_925]

thats pretty bad, you should up your tire pressure

Already high enough.

Its the combination of a few things that wore the tyre out. Was surprised and impressed that I was able to chew through the tyre as fast as I did.

[hmurphy]

Good effort mate!

You could try 17" rims with 125gp slicks? Or play around with tyre pressure or slow down or stop doing massive Marco Melandri powerslides on a bucket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvsit...e=channel_page

Maaaan I love that video.

[Pumba]

What tyre pressures are you running?

That certinly looks excesive and I would be looking at other things like suspension, and linkage bushes etc.

[Buckets4Me]

what tyres are they ???

look like my old tt900 when cully rode the bike after the tyre presure gauge went bad
12 psi and the tyres did that fast

[Sketchy_Racer]

You'll also find a lot of that rubber hanging off the edges isn't just yours, it'll be what you have picked up off the track that the kart guys leave behind.

How hot was it up there when that happened?

[Buckets4Me]

check that your swing arm is all there and ask fishy why ?

[RDjase]

What tyres and bike ? I was away yesterday getting my new bike for the summer series and missed the practice, Lucky you got some laps in the , They wouldnt have worn like that today and wet.

You'll also find a lot of that rubber hanging off the edges isn't just yours, it'll be what you have picked up off the track that the kart guys leave behind.

How hot was it up there when that happened?

When my son was racing karts if he got lazy after a race a did bad lines on the warm down lap he would get heaps of old rubber on his tyres

[DELLORTO]

You'll also find a lot of that rubber hanging off the edges isn't just yours, it'll be what you have picked up off the track that the kart guys leave behind.

How hot was it up there when that happened?

it read 22 degrees when i started practice......it was hot enough to melt my slicks nice and slicky

your right, ive picked up ALOT of rubber from royshill and its melted into my tires, i suspect it the karters mixed with the supermotards are responsible .

[Shorty_925]

Good effort mate!

You could try 17" rims with 125gp slicks? Or play around with tyre pressure or slow down or stop doing massive Marco Melandri powerslides on a bucket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvsit...e=channel_page

Maaaan I love that video.

Thats exactly how it was! haha

[Shorty_925]

The tyre is a TT900, 16in. Its on the rear of the DRZ125 I was running around on. So the suspension is the problem as its designed for some little kid, not someone my size! haha. My bro runs the same bike, though the green colour and he's not as heavy as what I am, and the wear on his tyre looked more like from my motard tyres were.

I wouldnt say that it was rubbish from the kart track either, its just wearing the tyres out from the heat and what I said above about the suspension.

[Buckets4Me]

what was the tier presure ???
just curios as we use to run around 26psi
and the tires looked like that after we tryied 13 psi by accident

looks good thow

[Shorty_925]

It had 34psi in it. Thought it was too little as well. When your 6'5 and at 110kg on a 8 year olds bike with that sort of suspension, all you can do is have fun!

[Buckets4Me]

It had 34psi in it. Thought it was too little as well. When your 6'5 and at 110kg on a 8 year olds bike with that sort of suspension, all you can do is have fun!

look like you had fun