Chicken Strips

Originally Posted by kitkat

i have big ones

Aye but what about your chicken strips?

I'm thinking the wider the tyre, the easier it is to wear it to the edge. Anyone got a 125 with no chicken strips?

I've figured my problem i think, it is all down to style. I seem to be pushing the front end a lot more through the corners

i have good healthy chicken strips on my bike must take pics and post. dont seem to have the need to lean right over to get round corners............ or maybe its because i'm chicken lol

Ok, the chicken strips ...



The sort of lean angles that tyre has supplied ... (yella bike)

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I think you will agree, there isn't VAST quantities of lean left there ... .. without falling off!! ... yet some pretty big 'strips

Now admittedly I do have the rear of my bike jacked up as high as it will go, but I really don't know how you can get an SVs rear tyre all the way to the edge ... certainly supercorsa's ... even at track/race pace!!

You would have to be one bat fastard or use the rear pegs as your rearsets!!

[BillyC]

You can't compare chicken strips between bikes.

It's more a function of the tyre size and profile than the way the rider can handle the bike. Some tyres allow you to get right to the edge (BT020 for example) without much effort. Others are a much bigger challenge due to a taller, sharper profile (Metzeler Z6 for example).

I always pushed my 020s to the edge without any problem. I now have an 014 on the front, and I'm some distance from the edge of the tyre - and I don't believe I've lost that much ability over the last few months!

Originally Posted by BillyC

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Ipso Facto, it's prolly nothing to worry about if your rear has chicken strips!!! ... it is just the way it is with certain tyres and the SV's geometry

For flips sake, all this talk about chicken strips . Tyres are designed with a margin (chicken strip) in mind. If they didn't you'd be in deep trouble. Most bikes, to use all available tread means you'd need to drag your elbow not your knee and well, lets not go there eh.

I've only ever got a front tyre to the edge of the tread on the track. On every road bike I've owned I've got the rear chicken strip dispensed with in short order but always had a small one left on the front no matter how hard I try to get it gone.

Doesn't matter if you still have a chicken strip on the rear, you could just say it shows you keep the bike more upright and get the power down earlier out of the corners . My daughter and my ex both get their knees down regularly without getting to the edge of their rear tyres.

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Ok, the chicken strips ...

I think you will agree, there isn't VAST quantities of lean left there ... .. without falling off!! ... yet some pretty big 'strips

Hmm...intesresting this...so i went to the garage to check. My old michelin 2ct powers - 3mm strips from road riding alone.

Whereas...my corsa iiis - track days only - strips are just at the edge of the forky trident thingy - approx 6-7 mm. Due to the greater lean angles on track you would expect a thinner strip.

Looks like profile has a lot to do with it as these were both achieved on the same bike.