Are you sure that tyre's illegal? (Officer)
 

:shock:

http://www.sidcupmotorcycletyres.co.uk/shame.htm

So where the rear brakes anyone on here????//

Hey, at least someone's using the back brake!! Some people don't....
He/She got their moneys worth of pad material!! :lol:

Bet the disc was'nt too clever either. :lol:

Must confess I don't know what looks wrong on the back brake.

nice page 8)

Interesting to see the blown out Macadam, abliet one that was already damaged.

Back in 1997 I had Macadam 100X on my GS500E. One day in the summer I was riding around with my now wife on the back. We were riding through Guildford and I thought the handling was a bit odd round right handers so I parked up in a layby and popped the bike on the stand. Spinning the back wheel round there was a huge blister where the rubber had detached itself from the carcass. :shock: The blister was about a foot long and three inches wide. I called out the RAC bloke as I had to get back to Harlow and he said he'd never seen anything like it before, basically a delamination.

When I got the tyre removed I sent it to Michelin as I was pretty cross. If I hadn't noticed slightly squiffy handling (which I could have put down to a fidget **** pillion) it could have blown out. Michelin claimed there was nothing wrong with the tyre! I asked them if they'd inflated it on a rim, as the delamination isn't obvious when deflated, and they didn't want to know. I have never bought a Michelin tyre since. Not because of the delamination as such more for fobbing me off with such blatant lies!

There's a few miles left in it yet :lol:

The square pieces in the picture are the metal backing plates of the brake pads, from which the friction material has been worn away completely so that the backing plates were touching the disc, and then the brake was still used such that the backing plates have worn through as well and the pistons are now gripping* the disc.

*ish.

L2.673.4



I am in the know ! :wink: