Tyre wear

[fat bert]

Was running BT57 front and 020 rear.
Noticed that the rear was run almost [well for me anyway] to the edge BUT front had a large "chicken strip" approx 2cm each side unused.

Any idea why?

 

[Superbobbird]

Bert,

I have noticed that. When you get a new tyre the middle always protrudes above the edges. I think that is something to do with it, as I have also worn a front out, with chicken strips.

 

[Cyclops]

Bert

I think its because you are a shit rider who dont lean it enough??LOL

 

[nigs]

didn't think that you'd be able to resist a dig for very long cyclops.

Mine's the same - rear worn fairly close to the edge, but front no where near as much. But then again, you can't get very much speed up on Jersey. By the time you get past 100mph you're halfway to Guernsey!! That's when you find out if your wet weather gear really works

 

[Cyclops]

It odd

but the front tyre on my birds far closer to the edge than Berts, maybe mines had the spacer put on the rear shocker ? will have to have look. It seems to handle very well round corners and compares to me Ducati, it just takes far more effort to change direction quickly.

 

[Steve Walker]

Mines the same. Close to the edge on the rear, about 20mm to each edge on the front. Is it something to do with counter steering.

 

[Doc Savage]

Fairly std.

Quite normal, yes Steve is on the right tracks apparently it is everything to do with counter steering, it lifts the edge from the tarmac ever so slightly as you put pressure on the inside handle bar. If you have worn right to the edge i would suggest its probably under inflated and there for would handle like a sponge.

Not that I am a world authority or anything!

Fronts also genraly wear slower I think to do with the rear working harder to provide grip. In 9,000 miles I have been through two rears to one front.

Could it have something to do with burn outs.. heee hee.

 

[Steve Walker]

:} Hi Jonathon, It makes a change for me to be on the right track. I think that most of the time I've lost the plot...Have you ever tried to explain counter steering to someone that doesn't ride a bike.

 

[Doc Savage]

Have I ever

Yes Steve I have and its usualy to boring barstuards who look at you blankly and wonder how you're still alive. Or the type of people who when dare to go pillion with you try desperately to lean the other fookin way.

 

[Steve Walker]

I tried to explain it to my Wife the other day. I don't think that she got it though. She just said she understood to shut me up. She has never learnt to ride a bike, not even a push bike cos she says she hasn't got any natural ballance on such things. When she is pillion though, I don't even know she is there. I have to take the occasional look to make sure I haven't dumped her on the road at the last pot hole I failed to observe in time.

 

[Stuey]

Re : Tyre wear

I don't think you'll ever get rid of the chicken strips on the front because of the profile. If you compare our 120/70 tyre profile to a 120/60 our tyre is much more rounded to the point where you would have to lean the bike over to around 50 deg from vertical, where as a 120/60 is far easier to lean right to the edge of the tread because it has a much 'flatter' shape.

 

[Superbobbird]

Chicken Strips it is then.:}

 

[1200Pete]

What Chicken strips
This is a picy of my front tyre, still at 42psi

 

[1200Pete]

And the back one

 

[1200Pete]

And me foot peg :t

 

[Doc Savage]

Show off

It's amazing what you can do with a bit of sand paper!:}

 

[Doc Savage]

Only kidding, I too don't have chicken strips. As for peg pins I don't run with any, after getting through two sets I can't be bothered with them.
However you can probably tell me whats next to hit the deck?
Cans?

 

[Steve Walker]

Nice one Pete. I thought that I was doing well with 5mm rear and 15mm front. You've put me to shame. . By the way is that a nail in your rear tyre or just atrick of the light.

 

[1200Pete]

Originally posted by Jonathan Savage
Only kidding, I too don't have chicken strips. As for peg pins I don't run with any, after getting through two sets I can't be bothered with them.
However you can probably tell me whats next to hit the deck?
Cans?

Well the next thing to hit the deck is a bit expensive, it's the fairing ,then the can, then your ass :B

you should be able to see the plastic strip I use for protection, this get's scratched, just rip it off slap a new bit on, saves a ?250 paint job every month

 

[NickyD]

Titanium rules...

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