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24-12-12, 10:56 AM | #1 |
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Wet roads, new tyres.
This'll be interesting! Pouring rain, wet roads, and brand new tyres.
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24-12-12, 11:07 AM | #2 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres....
Always scrub mine in the pouring rain as it happens.
What's the problem?
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24-12-12, 11:40 AM | #3 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres....
just take it easy n you'll fine n dandy! ie. no racing chavs away from the lights etc
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24-12-12, 02:17 PM | #4 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres....
It was a lighthearted comment, no more.
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24-12-12, 07:52 PM | #5 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres.
New tyres, rain?
Normally scrub in the wet, just use the throttle lightly. TBH I can get a set of tyres scrubbed in, in around 5 miles in the Dry
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24-12-12, 08:11 PM | #7 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres.
Oh ye of little faith! If you ride directly upright all the time and panic brake whenever an insect wonders into the road, it's possible to scrub all the required 1 inch width of tyre surface in within 5 miles!
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24-12-12, 08:11 PM | #8 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres.
No chance, my definition of scrubbed is still shiny to most and having a industrial estate on your doorstep (with a bends thats about 3/4 mile long) also helps as its empty on a weekend
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24-12-12, 08:18 PM | #9 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres.
I can scrub in and bed in a set of tyres in the snow, in about 1.5 miles to be honest
I hate bedding in tyres....more so in the wet. |
24-12-12, 08:23 PM | #10 |
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Re: Wet roads, new tyres.
Last year my tyres got bedded in spending a day on my favourite roads and 400 miles. This year it was on the trip to Le Mans.
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