Beware New Tyres

[Ballon]

Taking the youngest to rugby yesterday morning just before 10.00. about 200yds from a roundabout I saw a bloke on a VFR enter the roundabout from the other direction, not at a massive speed, he's half way round and whoops down he goes. Bike and he end up 20yds up the road. I go round a and stop the car and see if he is OK. Thankfully he was, jacket scuffed and torn but bike jeans appeard to be in one piece. Anyway helped him get the bike up and moved to a safer spot. (the bike was peeing oil, brake pedal and footpeg gone)

It was a great sunny, not too cold morning, dry roads, however he had brand new tyres on, I could still see the yellow line and the white residue on them. scary!!!!

Glad he was OK though.

PS. Not one car stopped and there must have been at least 10 go by before I got round the roundabout. Shame on them.

[y2blade]

brand new tires are fun at the best of time...i wouldnt fancy them at this time of year at all!!!!!!

[FM]

New tyres always can catch you out...despite plenty of experience.

[black-k1]

Been there, done that, got the scratches in the fairing!

New tyres really are very slippery and need a lot of care.

Do you happen to know which make of tyres he had just fitted?

[Rubin215]

Cellulose thinners on a rag to take the mould release fluid off, wash off with cold water, then sandpaper to take the shine off the rubber.

But still go carefully!

[Ballon]

black-k1 said:

Been there, done that, got the scratches in the fairing!

New tyres really are very slippery and need a lot of care.

Do you happen to know which make of tyres he had just fitted?

Looked like Bridgestone but could not be sure.

[Brummmie]

You need to get them up to full operating temperature, this then burns off the releasing agent.

[black-k1]

Ballon said:

black-k1 said:

Been there, done that, got the scratches in the fairing!

New tyres really are very slippery and need a lot of care.

Do you happen to know which make of tyres he had just fitted?

Looked like Bridgestone but could not be sure.

I've not had problems before with Bridgestone but then I'm sure that there is no particular brand that is better/worse than the others.

Brummmie said:

You need to get them up to full operating temperature, this then burns off the releasing agent.

Hard to do at this time of year.

[The T Boy]

I've got a brand spanking new BT021 on the back of the ST and it was very twitchy on the way in to work today.

The roads should stay dry today so that I can put a bit of heat into it on the way home.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

I got 2 new BT021's on mine, very twitchy but starting to rub in. Unfortunately my bike is going into MTC motorcycles as I managed to totally shag up a downpipe fitting and snapped one of the exhaust stud bolts off. Oh well

[slim_boy_fat]

Rubin215 said:

Cellulose thinners on a rag to take the mould release fluid off, wash off with cold water, then sandpaper to take the shine off the rubber.

But still go carefully!

WAste of time, just rage the bike in a straight line for 10 miles, strong brakes and accel does the trick.

Then spend about 50 miles slowly increasing the angle of dangle.