Obliterated tyre, causes?
 

Is this age related or should I lay off the right wrist action?
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Re: Obliterated Tyre.
 

lay off the straight roads. Quite concerning how close those threads are to the rubber surface looking at the wear markers.

Was the tyre being run with the correct PSI in it?

Re: Obliterated Tyre.
 

That's what I thought. When I left this morning I had about 0.5mm over the wear indicators and thought "oh these'll be fine for another 500 miles..."

70 miles later they were like this, stranded in the middle of butt f*ck nowhere. (Marlborough in Wiltshire outside a pub)

Re: Obliterated Tyre.
 

The last bit of the tyre is softer than the main body. The bit before the canvas is moulding rubber.

Pirelli's are bad for it

sent from the shredded wheat factory

Re: Obliterated Tyre.
 

Moral of this story, don't buy cheap continentals! I'm looking at you bike hire company!!!

Re: Obliterated Tyre.
 

Don't want/need to know about yer wrist action, :toss:, but perhaps laying off the right foot action may help too :smt102

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PSI maybe too high. I would expect that wear to be over a larger surface area.

Re: Obliterated tyre, causes?
 

Not really my responsibility Simon. The hire company should've given me a bike with more than two weeks worth of tyre on it. I told them how many miles I do in a week. The tyre pressure should also have been checked before they gave me the bike.

Obliterated tyre, causes?
 

Nothing wrong with Continental tyres, that one is knackered however, but it really doesn't look like normal wear to me. I suspect either a manufacturing fault, or damage from prior running at the wrong pressure.

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I only really use the back brake at low speed and to shave off little bits of speed during corners.