Thought: Promote safer biking by tyre discount?

While checking my tyres yesterday and admiring my untouched (after 1.5 years!) chicken strips, I thought it would be nice if the tyre companies gave a discount on the next set of tyres if you still had chicken strips left, say 2% per mil.

Save me a small fortune and promote safer (well slower anyway) biking.

Just a thought and now I'm curious what response this will provoke.

Firstly, i notice by your sig you have a topbox

woooo

ok, secondy, the topic of the thread

Safer riding dosn't come from how much chicken strips you have left...just because you dont lean, it dosnt mean you dont gun it along every straight getting into three figures and brake hard before wobbling around the next turn...

Safe riding is financially rewarded by

1) not having to fork out for a new bike

2) not having to fork out for new riding kit

3) not having to fork out to repair parts that you have trashed from shoddy, unsafe riding

4) not having to pay increasing insurance premiums

If you're not a safe biker i would imagine that starts pretty soon after your head becomes imbedded in a road sign. I lean a bit, it increases confidence (in me anyway). Going 15mph around every corner to get cheaper tyres wouldn't promote safety anyway, kinda the opposite.
Just opinions, hah

[Viney]

Originally Posted by AndyW

While checking my tyres yesterday and admiring my untouched (after 1.5 years!) chicken strips, I thought it would be nice if the tyre companies gave a discount on the next set of tyres if you still had chicken strips left, say 2% per mil.

Save me a small fortune and promote safer (well slower anyway) biking.

Just a thought and now I'm curious what response this will provoke.

I loose most of my chicken strips riding in london and leaning the bike, so that throws the theory out of the window!

how about not riding at all would save your self the cost of a new tyre / tyres

i would say im a safe rider, my dad teaches me safe riding. i dont have chicken strips on one side and a small amount on the other side, it the same with my dad who has done his IAM test, and is doin ghis rospa. I dont think it promotes safe riding

my opinion anyway

Topbox, IAM and chicken strips.

I'll say no more.

I think you should be FINED for not using all of the tyre... not very green is it, land filling all that unused rubber?? you should feel ashamed!

P.S. I'd like to add, I'm IAM with no top box, no chicken strips....

I _like_ my top box. No putting the helmet on the ground and having a dog relieve itself in the vicinity while off buying a mug of tea and bacon butty. Or carrying the helmet around with me when I have to just stop off at the bank or whatever.
I am sure you can tell me how 'parfum eau du chien' is part of a real biking experience.

I am too slow round sharp corners in a 30, and tend to do 90 degrees at 15mph.
I also tend to stick at speed limit+10 (indicated) and don't slow for most corners when in a 40+. Don't have any problem keeping up with others on my (rare) rideouts though, including twisties. I don't need to work the chicken strips at all.
I freely admit I'm not a speed merchant and quite happily trundle round at well below what the bike is capable of, but then thats one of the reason why I haven't gone out and bought a shiny new ZZR 1400 ABS for 8k with 0% finance. (Speed limited? Only a 187? Pah, get a real bike!) Of course, part of that is also the reason I'm still alive, never had a bone breakage from an off, and got all my no claims.

Tyres make great bases for new roads, so I'm supporting better road building by leaving rubber on it :P

More seriously, wiping out the chicken strips can be done perfectly safely but generally isn't. Some numpty decides its a badge of courage to completely get rid of them and totals the bike and/or himself trying.

Chicken strips dont have to be wiped off by excessive/illegal speeds.

How is keeping chicken strips promoting safe riding?

Last sentence of above.
Also, think about why there are there chicken strips on the tyres. Manufacturing defect or deliberately put there? Why?