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Hello Junior, Welcome to this great site. Any white stuff on the frozen tundra yet? Can you still ride up there yet? Cheers, Richard

Originally Posted by a1a

Hello Junior, Welcome to this great site. Any white stuff on the frozen tundra yet? Can you still ride up there yet? Cheers, Richard

Oh yeah!! We had quite the ice storm last night and yesterday. My bike has been "hibernating" since about mid-october. It hasn't actually snowed until just about a week ago, but a bald tire, questionable chain and sprockets, as well as a lack of time to ride, made me put it away early. (does anyone else here find that the amount of engine compression on deceleration causes a lot of rear tire sliding when it is hot out?) I guess the bright side is that I have time to fix those things and do some modifications. I am going to do a rear shock swap (for a 99' GSXR600 unit) and a front suspension upgrade from traxxion.com Aside from that and some scheduled maintainence, I am definetly pleased.

Originally Posted by Junior

does anyone else here find that the amount of engine compression on deceleration causes a lot of rear tire sliding when it is hot out?

This shouldn't happen if you 'blip' the throttle when changing down through the gears... It's quite simple to do - just blip the throttle a little when you've got the clutch in just before you release the clutch to change down a gear - the idea is to match the engine speed with the gearbox speed (& therefore rear wheel speed).

HTH

Hey Junior!

Greetings from a fellow Canadian! Welcome to the site! Thanks,

Mitch

Thanks for the welcome one and all.
As for the throttle blipping, I do that. Just seems that the Bridgestone BT010's like to slide when you get off the throttle. Not so much that the rear end moves around alot, but enough that is causes premature wear on my rear tire. I put a new tire on in May, and by mid July I was past the wear indicators. ( I should point out that I put on about 3000km tops in that time. Alot of straight line touring, and quite a bit of twisty stuff.) On one particularly brisk ride (average about 160km/hr for 2 hours or so) I stopped for a break. I looked at the rear tire and it had rubber shavings that looked like when you erase pencil marks from paper. It was a rather hot day (about 29 deg. celcius) but still, I found that weird. I have a friend who rides a Honda CBR600RR who experienced the same thing with a BT014 (my next tire come spring ). Anyway, just something I noticed. I hope to get a little more life out of the 014 (apparently with Bridgestones the higher the number, the harder the compound).

I wouldn't imagine that tyre life is anything that strange from my experience of the 010's. They are a fantastic trye but they do not like straight lines at any great speed for any length of time!
My 010 rear survived about 300 miles of weekend fun, one trip to Wales and back, with a track day thrown in for good measure and then about 500 miles with a lot of motorway/dual carriageway work. The rear tyre was very flat in the middle then, with vaguely reasonable life on the edges.
The tyres had done about 3,500 miles from memory.
After about 7,500 miles the front tyre was well overdue a change as it was very worn down on the right hand side! (Possibly something to do with the fun to be had at roundabouts, the track I did my trackday on was also predominantly right handers! )
I would imagine the temperature that yours are being run at would probably make them work better and wear out quicker!
Bridgestones are known as tyres that will slide around a bit but predictably, so it shouldn't feel scary!

The 014 is, as far as I remember, the replacement for the 010 which is being phased out. The 020 may well be a better option if you want a bit more tyre life! The 020 is a dual-compound tyre, with a softer (almost 010) compound at the edges and a harder compound in the middle. I ran an 010 at the front & an 020 at the rear when I replaced my 010 rear and was very happy. There is also a lot of information to be seen in the Tyre Review Section at the bottom of the forum index.

HTH