Running in a new tire, "A right of passage?"

Shifty · Post by **Shifty** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:17 am

Many tyre shops will give them a wipe with tinners or similar before you get them, definitely a good start. Then just work them in by going slow and gradually increasing your lean angle until you're out to the edge of the tyre.

And yes, a new tyre feels great doesn't it? My last tyre wasn't squared off at all, and still the new one feels tops

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:21 am

neka79 wrote:
p.s. listen to yoda..its not just cos he's ugly we call him that...

me thinks..........
maybe, just maybe thats a compliment

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:46 am

Smitty wrote:
neka79 wrote:
p.s. listen to yoda..its not just cos he's ugly we call him that...
me thinks..........
maybe, just maybe thats a compliment

Maybe neka79 is on the campain trail, what with the funniest member election coming up...

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:53 am

neka79 wrote:mate..ride the thing..seriously, u can have it done within an hour (100km/h)...i ussually hit the power hard after i get a new one (in a str8 line) to spin it up..then i do weavy things....then i do a few corners..and hey presto, ive had a hour of fun & tyre is scrubbed...

yer! It's all coming back to me now. I did the weave all the way up moss st and then darted into a housing estate and LRLRLR before heading up the main roads and home. They fitted it late, like, PEAK HOUR, and that's why I went into the housing estate for 10 minutes, the main roads were chokkas

7THSIN · Post by **7THSIN** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:46 pm

A quick ride through the hills always sorts out a new tyre for me, within 30 or so km I have the bike down to the lean angles of a well used tyre, but for those first 30km, gradually tip it in a little further at a time.

I had a new rear put on awhile ago, did 80km through the hills, 20km commuting and then went out for a track day and destroyed (in a good way) the sides of the tyre, there wasnt even one corner where it felt like a new (slippery) tyre.

Never tried the acetone trick, but I've heard taking the bike for a ride is much better, as when the tyre heats up it releases some of the oils impregnated in the top layer of rubber, just below the wax.