Campaign for clean tyres

[awayatc]

I reckon there should be a campaign for thinking.

You think so?.....

I used to be realy indecisive...
But now I am not sure anymore....

[jonbuoy]

Everyone does know that new tyres are slippery but lets be honest it doesn't HAVE to be that way? Progress is a good thing in general. New brake pads need bedding in for obvious unavoidable reasons but it seems a bit daft for tyres to leave the Pirelli/Michelin factory with it still on. Unless it preserves the tyre in storage?

[jrandom]

I saw Robbie Bugden do a sub 1 minute lap...

... of? The carpark?

[NordieBoy]

IDIOT!!!! You want these clowns to crash their bikes even more!?? If they fall off their bike by just putting on new tyres,how the hell will they cope with a gravel road? I suggest one of us each side to hold them up until they are steady enough to do it on their own.

Welll....
We could scrub the tyres in for them of course
For only a modest fee...

[saltydog]

First 100kms ride like you are in the rain (if in rain ride like a nanna) but slowly and progressivley taking her a little bit more over onto the chicken strip area. But a quicker and easier way is to take her out against the wall of the bike shop (hopefully out the back somewhere), straddle the bike, front tyre against the wall and spin her up while rocking her side to side. Works a treat every time. For the front scrub...ride like a nanna for the first 100kms!
We had a shop in town, gone now, that used to encourage us to burn our tyre out before putting the new one on. Used to be the best part about getting new rubber....... I love leaving small calling cards...espicially on mates driveways. Just small ones mind.......so their missuses (is that a word?) don't notice!

[HDTboy]

... of? The carpark?

Puke, ya knob. It's the only track that real NZers can drive to in under an hour.

[The Pastor]

first thing to do with new tyres, is to crank the bike right over and wack that throttle wide open.

[vgcspares]

This thread's left me bemused - I own heaps of bikes, ridden for yonks and bought/run in plenty of new sets of tires

As bikers we have traditionally had to put up with greasy tires because the industry doesn't get any flak from car owners (by far and away their biggest group of customers) and consequently as a minority we have to look after ourselves.

What's surprised me with this thread is very few seem to think the world would be a better place if we didn't have to take great care (or else kneel on the floor with some sandpaper/degreaser and fix the problem ourselves) ...

... just because it hasn't happened to me or you yet, it may still - plenty of people fall off on new tires just ask any dealer.

[discotex]

... just because it hasn't happened to me or you yet, it may still - plenty of people fall off on new tires just ask any dealer.

Do you think they should force us to buy and use tyre warmers as well? Plenty of people fall off because they don't warm their tyres up.......

[vgcspares]

12 minutes, apparently, and then your tires are as warm as if you'd had tire warmers on - but it is worth noting that while plenty of people fall off on trackdays/races on the first lap not so many fall off on the road early in their journey.

The fact is new tires pose a greater risk, but then hey, I'm just a Nanny who thinks that if there's a problem it wouldn't be so bad if those that could do something about it did.

[NordieBoy]

12 minutes, apparently, and then your tires are as warm as if you'd had tire warmers on

12 mins at what speed and what type of road?

[peasea]

12 mins at what speed and what type of road?

In what weather, on what bike, with what output, ridden by who, loaded or unloaded and does the brand of motorcycle have any effect on the figures?

Sheesh....details please!

[Blackshear]

In what weather, on what bike, with what output, ridden by who, loaded or unloaded and does the brand of motorcycle have any effect on the figures?

Sheesh....details please!

You forgot the incline/decline, diameter and pace.

[discotex]

You forgot the incline/decline, diameter and pace.

How about silica/carbon/rubber ratio.....

[discotex]

not so many fall off on the road early in their journey.

Ummmm whatever... While hardly empirical I've read heaps of "I binned 500m from my driveway" threads on KB compared to zero "I binned 500m from the tyre shop" threads.


That said I'd support having a standard printout that shops could give to people explaining how to safely scrub in new tyres but I don't want people messing with solvents/sandpaper/etc on my behalf.