New tyres, fell off!

The molds the tyres are removed from have a 'grease' or something to help get them out when they are set, it takes a little time for the tyres to warm up and work this grease out. So until they heat up they will be extra slippy.

Personally, I have always found as soon as the shiny surface has gone, then that has been enough to use the tyre as normal. I tend to try and get a tyre scrubbed in within 20 miles or so. I can then stop worrying about tipping into corners or throttling out of them.

When i bought my new bike only 2 weeks ago (new bike so not even better/special tyres..) i had a similar moment.. coming up to a junction and a car let me go, scooted across and subsequently missed 3rd gear (it stayed in 2nd), dumped the clutch abit heavier than i should have (new bike - new rider - forgive me) and before i know it, i'm fishtailing the back wheel and the bike is all over the place.

Absolutely crapped my pants as there was only 7miles on the clock at this point.. luckily was going really slow (new bike remember) so managed to just ease off the throttle and bring it back under control.

Would that be Mark at Ride-in-Reading then BigApe? The junction to get out of that place is a bit random (as is the metal post just outtside the fitting bay). Still, Ive never managed to loose it on nwe tyres. Riding on egg shells for the first trip back to Oxford, then all seems fine.

Originally Posted by philbut

Would that be Mark at Ride-in-Reading then BigApe? The junction to get out of that place is a bit random (as is the metal post just outtside the fitting bay). Still, Ive never managed to loose it on nwe tyres. Riding on egg shells for the first trip back to Oxford, then all seems fine.

Correctamundo.

Metal post

yep, its one of those security jobbies. It is usually folded down just to the left of the entrance door as you ride in. I went to ride round a GSXR that was parked in the way the first time i went there, didn't see it and nearly ended up takin the GSXR out! you should have seen the guys face fortunatly years of MX riding came into play and I saved it.

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two minutes later as he pulls out of the shop and onto the road, does a complete doughnut wheel spin and ends up on his ****.

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Happened to a mate of mine in front of us ( No names Colin ). As soon as his rear tyre hit the tarmac coming out of the warehouse he was off... BUT he successfully claimed against the shop because they'd left so much tyre fitting goop on the tread it had made the bike unridable. Scubbing in a new tyre is one thing. Scrubbing in a new tyre in damp copnditions when it's covered in half a gallon of soap paste is another. (not aimed at you Spannerman, this was a well known shop on Wesgate road in Newcastle)

We had a similar thing in the car. Fitted two new tyres (Federal) and then headed off to the lakes camping for the weekend. Unfortunately, as soon as we left the garage it started raining and the rain didn't ease for five days. So no scrubbing in of the rear tyres. Very interesting in a fully loaded 406 estate on polished A roads. We ended up facing the wrong way over a dozen times and roundabouts were impossible. I ended up swapping them with the front on the camp site and spinning the wheels on rough country roads to get the things roughened up.

Back in the days when I used to commute all year round on my bike, I used to sand the tyres down before leaving the garage in thew winter(I used to fit them myself) five minutes with a a very rough paper (grit paper) and it was 75% scrubbed in.

When someone says "take it easy for the first 200 miles" ride like the bikes got stabilisers on if it's wet!

[yorkie_chris]

I've heard of people doing burnouts on new tyres to scrub in the centers, anybody know if this works or what?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I've heard of people doing burnouts on new tyres to scrub in the centers, anybody know if this works or what?

Yup.

1st thing I do every time a tyre is fitted is give it a load of welly and get down to the grippy canvas wall underneath that silly slippy rubber.

Originally Posted by Berlin

We had a similar thing in the car. Fitted two new tyres (Federal) and then headed off to the lakes camping for the weekend. Unfortunately, as soon as we left the garage it started raining and the rain didn't ease for five days. So no scrubbing in of the rear tyres.