how wide are your chicken stripes ?

[vitesse39]

Having seen a thread a while back with the unused areas of the rear tyre reffered to as 'chicken stripes', how wide or narrow are yours ? and how long did it take you to loose them ?

Best I've seen was an old neighbour who used to removed the flappy bit where the side wall starts.

Me, well I'm a bit of a newby, and Mrs vitesse tells me off every time she sees they've got narrower.
I just keep my helmet on now so I can't hear her !!!!

[Mad Dave]

The 3mm of brown on the left is the unused rubber. That's after an 'energetic' ride back from Poole one evening. I went out with Mon Ami Mate recently and the middle of the tyre was all bobbled and the chicken strips were pretty non-existent. Sadly I needed a new tyre shortly afterwards.

[Incorrigible]

Difficult to tell

What do you reckon

A couple of inches either side .......

[tycho]

About 1cm each side as I'm scrubbing it in at the moment. The old tyre had none at all.

[outrider]

tycho said:

About 1cm each side as I'm scrubbing it in at the moment. The old tyre had none at all.

Yeah mines approx 1cm each side, perhaps a bit less and I don't consider myself an aggressive cornering fiend at all

[DennisTheMenace]

about 10mm each side , i dont trust the tyres , there was none on the ZX6R

[nords]

Errrrrr nil!






This is probably why..........

[Youth Gone Wild]

I can't wait till I'm 21.

[rsvmilly]

Just from road riding I have none on the back of the Aprilia. I can't get rid of the ones on the front, though. Why would this be? I'm on BT010s BTW. Tyre profile?

My Suzuki's grew on the back tyre after my trip to Le Mans - after all of the motorway mileage. Must be the heat.

[element]

you'll never get rid of them on the front - this is a good thing

[saleen05]

gone - rhand side and nearly gone lhand side

[clarkey]

loads. Huuuuuuuuuuge. But I am a complete pussy.

[rsvmilly]

element said:

you'll never get rid of them on the front - this is a good thing

Nords has.

[dern]

I've still got them on both sides and both are about 1cm and (slowly) reducing as the miles go by and my confidence returns having not really used it much for a couple of years (excuses, excuses ).

Cheers,

Mark

[Incorrigible]

element said:

you'll never get rid of them on the front - this is a good thing

I think photos of front chicken strips next

[s2rr kitty]

I'm proud to say that I have NO chicken strips on either side

excluding the front that is

[fergus]

rsvmilly said:

element said: you'll never get rid of them on the front - this is a good thing Nords has.

No he hasn't! He's got about 10mm left each side. It's called pushing the front into corners!!

Nords - serious question: I presume your back tyre in the photo is after a road ride? If it's not, where were you riding, and what sort of suspension are you running? Your tyres are very clean!!!

[rsvmilly]

fergus said:

rsvmilly said: element said: you'll never get rid of them on the front - this is a good thing Nords has. No he hasn't! He's got about 10mm left each side.

They're not clear in the photo.

fergus said:

It's called pushing the front into corners!!

What, the roughed up areas of the tyre? He's still used that are of the tyre regardless how he did it hasn't he? Or am I missing something?

[fergus]

can you not see the 'chicken strip' on the front then?

change your monitor resolution

>> Edited by fergus on Friday 24th June 11:03

[Andymx5]

Chicken Stripes? Can't really tell with my Diablos but the Hero Blob at the end of my LEFT peg has been ground half off! Is that leant far enough over for ya!