Brand new Gixxer crash vid - Guarantee hilarious

[JimO]

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.

Steve

a salesman at the local honda/triumph dealership put a newish street triple in the harbour because someone gave the bike a clean and put some shiney shit on the tyres

[s8306]

Never quite done that, But managed a massive slide getting off the inter-islander last trip to SI.
Wet steel deck, 2up & luggage.
Could have turned V nasty and embarrassing in front of the line of cars also waiting to get off

Yeah,those ferrys are a bastard when the decks are wet.

[Grizzo]

Poor fucker!

[jer66]

Poor fecker would you feel a rite tool going back to the shop for a repair quote. :

[Grizzo]

Poor fecker would you feel a rite tool going back to the shop for a repair quote. :

At least he wouldnt have to push it far!

[discotex]

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

Hahah yeah tell me about it. I rode my brand new 600rr out of the shop in a storm. Was shitting myself I can tell you.

Remember it is "slightly opening the throttle" on a thou. There's a fair bit of torque being applied to that wheel as it goes brruuuurp.

[speights_bud]

Unscrubbed tyres, Yep!, but everything else about him screams noob at me he shoulda rolled in the dirt & gravel in those leathers before even getting on the bike!

[TimeOut]

Never quite done that, But managed a massive slide getting off the inter-islander last trip to SI.
Wet steel deck, 2up & luggage.
Could have turned V nasty and embarrassing in front of the line of cars also waiting to get off

My first time up the Blue Bridge steel ramp was wet too, a tense moment but all was good.

I've heard of people using a wire brush to scrud a tyre in.

[nivram]

Check out this pop tard

[Forest]

Check out this pop tard

Thanks for the laugh!

[Radar]

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?

Sandpaper or wet/dry emery cloth works well, but use fine grit, not coarse. I scrubbed new tyres this way and it only took a few minutes. To get the right kind of fine grit, I simply tested various grades of sandpaper on the plastic tops of containers at Super Cheap - it only took one swipe to see the result and I was surprised how fine a grit was needed. Hold the sandpaper with a cloth or sponge so that it fits around the curve of the tyre and keeps your hand cool from the friction heat.

Yes a metal / dirt road is a good idea but when I tried that the problem was to find metal deep enough so that the tyres were fully scrubbed. Most metal roads do not have deep gravel except at the shoulders where there is the possibility of binning.

Scrubbing new tyres with a brush and soapy water is better than nothing. I would not take the chance of binning without trying to remove the waxy coating.

[SPman]

Yes. Any dealer or tyre shop worth their salt will remind you to take it easy for a few kilometres when you ride off on new tyres.

..and also watch out for suicidal pedestrians in that first few Ks........

[nivram]

They keep coming

[dpex]

The fastest way to scrub off the new tyre coating is to find your self a dirt road, and go for a bit of a blat.

Edit: I did not find that clip "Guarantee Hillarious" either.

Good idea for the 70% of the tyres, but unless you can do doughnuts, again and again, on a metal road, then how do you scrub off the last 25mm (the chicken strips)? This issue has had me fascinated through three sets of recent scrub-ins. Ya see, the last 25mm is used when das bike is down and dirty at 45 degrees or better. To get there you have to be going fast...on the wax. Scares the fuck out of me. And now I have to do it all over again on me new Metzlers. Grumble, moan, freak!

[Gubb]

You lean it more and more every time, this way, you won't have the contact patch made up from all the waxy part, it will be partly scrubbed in, and partly waxy, which will soon be removed.