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    bleh.. more than likely.. it will just go flat.


    loving the sensationalism!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cowboyz View Post
    loving the sensationalism!
    Hey, he said "worst case scenario"

    The novelists in us got all excited and read "create the most inventive worst case scenario possible".

    But people's points are valid... plenty of us have seen some nasty stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    Hey, he said "worst case scenario"

    The novelists in us got all excited and read "create the most inventive worst case scenario possible".

    But people's points are valid... plenty of us have seen some nasty stuff.
    oh,,,, my bad!!!!



    well.. there was this one time... at band camp.. I was riding my bike and the tyre was like a bald and I stopped at the lights and this whole car full of really hot chicks pull up next to me and the looked at me in this really keen way and then looked at my tyre and pointed and laughed and drove off....
    It was almost the best day of my life... cause chicks dig tyres!

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    riding with a bald tyre will get your hot girlfriend pregnant.
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    On Tuesday in the wet I had a huge moment on a worn tyre.
    Ironically I was on my way to the bike store to get a new set fitted.
    The rear was down to the treadwear markers, got 11,000km out of it which for a fairly sticky sports tyre seemed pretty good (Metzler M3).

    So anyway - I'm moving across to the left lane of the motorway to exit when all I see all the traffic ahead in my lane slowing rapidly.
    The left lane is empty.
    Just as I indicate and start pulling into the lane I see a guy coming up the left lane at a massive rate of knots.
    Click down into second, wind on the gas, no more than I usually do and suddenly the rear breaks free and I'm drifting up the motorway.
    The revs are whipping up the dial, the speedo is hardly moving, back end trying to come and see whats happening up front.
    Fortunately I avoid a highside and the bike grips, bucks, snorts and shoots forwards.

    Successfully up the bike shop, new rubber fitted and normal grip restored.

    If everything is working properly tyres should be the only part of your bike touching the ground.
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    Check the condition of the tyre.
    Don't ride on worn out rubber, it could make the difference between getting there in one piece of being loaded into an ambulance / hearse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    Hey, he said "worst case scenario"

    The novelists in us got all excited and read "create the most inventive worst case scenario possible".

    But people's points are valid... plenty of us have seen some nasty stuff.

    Absolutely - he asked for worst case - that's what he was given.

    I've ridden a big bore down to the canvas and done 1/2 a Coro Loop on it - I didn't die. Had a couple of slidie moments but that was cranked over on the edge leaving black crayon marks.... got 1200kms out of that tyre

    Had to trailer it to Boyds the following day for a new tyre. Of interest is that once down to the cords a Battlax is about 1mm thick....

    Saw a Kwak14 in Hamilton the other day with full canvas showing on the centre of the tyre - as it blasted past at warp factor on Cobham Drive. He didn't appear to be dying either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cowboyz View Post
    bleh.. more than likely.. it will just go flat.


    loving the sensationalism!
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    Quote Originally Posted by marty View Post
    Saw a Kwak14 in Hamilton the other day with full canvas showing on the centre of the tyre - as it blasted past at warp factor on Cobham Drive. He didn't appear to be dying either.
    Yeah but he is obviously already brain-dead.

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    The tyre on the rear of my bike has just managed to hit the wear indicators. Seems like I should fork out for a new one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by marty View Post
    Of interest is that once down to the cords a Battlax is about 1mm thick....
    I got a Pilot Sport close to the cords. They weren't showing, but the tyre felt they should have been. Off the rim and I could see daylight through it...
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by yachtie10 View Post
    So have you sorted it

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    Thankyou! Yes, all sorted. Brand new Dunlop Qualifier 2. Much nicer than the original one it came with too.
    Holy sheeeiiittt. I can't believe the difference and what a moron I was riding around on it before. Feels like a totally different bike.

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