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They do but OEM fitment tyres on new bikes are far more slippery than off the shelf tyres. I've experienced this first and second hand on multiple occassions.Originally Posted by TonyB
I didn't think it was funny either, it's not like he gave it a handfull. Any reasonably experienced rider would've ridden away like that. Five minutes and some solvent on a rag would save the excess and evaporated no claims bonus!
Forum whore
Yep seemed to be taking it easy. Just squeezed at the wrong time. How many here have not done that? It's only luck that you stay up......usually.
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Never quite done that, But managed a massive slide getting off the inter-islander last trip to SI.
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Could have turned V nasty and embarrassing in front of the line of cars also waiting to get off
Scooter boy
Poor guy, I bet he was fucked off about that. When I looked at the video couldn't fault him at all. I scratched my wing mirror the other day when I almost dropped my bike to the ground and that pissed me off enough.
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Hardcore Biker
You've got that right. Nearly did that myself on an R1 coming out of a service station, had to change my underclothes
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Ah new tyres. My theory in running in new tyres is obviously take it easy but I get out on the open road and put a few good kms on them to get them heated up. Progressively speed up in corners to scuff them in.
My theory about heat working goes like this - you can fit a new set of tyres and take it easy for days/weeks whatever - somewhere down the track you'll be hammering it around a few corners- the chicken strips are still virgins, if the heat from a previous good ride has no dispersed the moulding wax then the edges you have never ridden on before would still be slippery. They are not - the only slippery thing when cranked way over is your undies.
mad thou rider
hahaha what is it with the "everybody wants to see gixxers get smashed up" this week?
Double shot!!
Well that is the problem isn't it. You can't get on a bike with four times the power you are used to, and new tyres on it, and "just squeeze at the wrong time" - that's one of a hundred reasons why learners don't ride high-powered bikes.
There is also his mate there with a video camera - that's a particularly dumb thing to do. He should have told him to piss off and leave him to watch what he was fucking doing, instead of laughing and goofing off for the camera - a sure-fire way to screw something up real bad.
Do shops polish new tyres? I bought a near-new (second hand) bike and some goof had plastered some slippery shit all over the tyres so he could get a better photo of it. He looked a bit pissed off when I asked for a bucket of hot soapy water, but I sat on his driveway for 20 minutes and scrubbed it all off. The tyres were positively dripping with the crap. Ugh. There was no way I was going anywhere on that.
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His low speed riding as he was comng towards the camera seemed controlled and smooth.
A similar thing happened to me but it wasn't cos of new tyres but because I had just finished a burnout that a non biker mate asked me to do after I dropped him off. I went to ride off and it lit up again, crossed it up but gently eased the throttle off and she straightened out.
Next time I saw him he couldn't stop going on about how it was the best thing he'd ever seen, even when I told him it was by accident and that I was shitting myself at the time.
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I rub my new tyres down with Wax and Tar remover to avoid potential problem like this.
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It's a "skin" if you will. Tyres need to be "scrubbed in"..............carefully, as you can see
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For the guy who mentioned solvent, isn't any type of chemical on your tyre a bad idea? Couldn't 30 mins with a piece of coarse sand paper do the trick?
Tsar Bomba
Why bother? Scrubbing in tyres isn't rocket science...
1. Be very gentle on gas/brakes for the first 5-10km until the crown of the tyre wears clean. Be especially wary of polished concrete etc.
2. Gradually increase lean angles to rub a little bit of the slippery stuff off each time. I use big snaking lines down the motorway.
3. Gradually take it out to the edge of the tyre.
You should be 80% sorted within 20-30km.
Some people say it's best to go through a few heat cycles on road tyres so don't expect full grip until 100km+.
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Has never caused me any issues at all but then again I'm not going for longevity with my tyres.
New tyres...track day...wiped them down...new tyres now sticky..
Forum whore
If it works for you then why not, I guess. I've heard of chemicals giving tires hair line cracks but then again this was probably just some bright spark siliconing the sides of his tire to make it look nice... Discotex - Never rode a brand new road bike so I can't comment much, but if slightly opening the throttle at such a moderate lean angle out of a carpark like that can make a bike highside I would be pretty damn wary, lol
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