Chicken Strips

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

Excellent. Be good to see you there.

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Thats near where I work! Will call in if I'm nearby.

Yeah, pop along - will be good to say hi

Andres

 

[snelly]

I'm pretty cool with or without my chicken strips. It was more to do with danger / wear on the tyre etc.

What's going on at Cafe Hockley?

It,s the chicken strip comparison event . Sounds like you think you may be in with a shout at first prize. fuck what people say about your strips and ware them with pride. You would look a bigger twat polishing your arse with the tarmac trying to loose them.

 

[Shep]

I was at a service station in Newbury, i was tucked away around the side using the airline, a few sports bikes rode into the garage and filled up with fuel one of the riders walked around the side of the building to where i was and with his back to me, rubbed his knee slider along the rough wall, you should have seen his face when he turned around to do the other one

 

[g.s.john]

Chicken strips? Tells me you might live a bit longer.

 

[Deletedmemberjdcxxx]

Chicken strips? Tells me you might live a bit longer.

So I don't need to worry about chicken strips??? Brilliant, does anyone know anything about oil???

 

[Mutley]

To the best of my knowledge road tyres do not re-cure themselves to any great extent so the chicken strips don't alter their behaviour. Road tyres are designed to heat up evenly, unlike race tyres, and I doubt you are running dual compound hyper sports tyres.

The profile of the tyre is of far more concern as once you have squared them off you'll get some odd handling transitions.

As for whether you are embarrassed by the lack of wear, only you can decide that although it has already been pointed out that as a GS rider you are hardly pushing the performance envelope.

As for people who have chamfered foot pegs but wide chicken strips? It generally indicates the bike has been dropped to me

 

[Fanum]

Nah. I used the Bungalow



The GS doesn't have chamfered pegs

You do realise that you could have gone around that corner a lot faster if you'd sat on the bike properly, don't you

 

[zoot]

So I don't need to worry about chicken strips??? Brilliant, does anyone know anything about oil???

No but I could tell you where to put your tax disc

 

[Mr K]

You do realise that you could have gone around that corner a lot faster if you'd sat on the bike properly, don't you

Seeing as how the bike is at almost full lean and he's hanging off too, I don't think so.

 

[Nutty]

Mmmm, chicken

 

[Bendy toy]

Take the bike around small lanes in the Peak District (ignore the "biker" routes) Tight bends on narrow lanes but often with good line of sight and you'll have near enough zero chicken strips without even trying.

 

[Deletedmemberjdcxxx]

Take the bike around small lanes in the Peak District (ignore the "biker" routes) Tight bends on narrow lanes but often with good line of sight and you'll have near enough zero chicken strips without even trying.

32 Responses until a useful answer comes along, not bad for this site!

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

You've had plenty of useful answers - what's the problem

Andres

 

[JayC]

As the weather improves my plan is to find some rides that give me the chance to correct the wear, but is there a point where chicken strips become dangerous or impossible to remedy. ( I'm assuming that appropriate / enthusiastic riding can "fix" chicken strips, but you can let me know if I'm mistaken.)

Cheers,

John.

32 Responses until a useful answer comes along, not bad for this site!

Here's another answer you can choose to either overlook or acknowledge.

The tyre has been worn relative to the manner in which the bike has been used and so the profile has changed.
The unworn area is the same as when it was manufactured, therefore that section of the profile hasn't altered.

Unless you are going to do 100 odd miles around a roundabout, at various angles of lean to remove / blend the high spot of the profile, and avoid the 'drop off the edge', (you can work out for yourself how you are going to attempt to deal with the left side of the tyre - go to France perhaps and find another roundabout) you are never going ride a consistent arc of profile back into that tyre.

Here is your tyre profile, exaggerated. You cannot 'ride' the black corners (high spots) to recreate the red profile. The profile you now have is the profile the tyre will keep.

 

[Deletedmemberjdcxxx]

32 Responses until a useful answer comes along, not bad for this site!

That was a joke

I really appreciate all of the useful advice

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

That was a joke

I really appreciate all of the useful advice

Andres

 

[g.s.john]

So I don't need to worry about chicken strips??? Brilliant, does anyone know anything about oil???

it aint rocket science work it out for your self Einstein.

 

[Deletedmemberjdcxxx]

it aint rocket science work it out for your self Einstein.

No need to get all sensitive, my previous comments weren't serious.

 

[snaponphil]

Hi All,

When I bought my GSA last year I inherited a back tyre with a hint of chicken strips and unfortunately I've made them worse. Nothing excessive but enough for another bike rider at work to notice. The wear pattern is a result of my slightly boring commute to and from work, careful riding through the winter on wet roads and my lack of experience in recent years.

As the weather improves my plan is to find some rides that give me the chance to correct the wear, but is there a point where chicken strips become dangerous or impossible to remedy. ( I'm assuming that appropriate / enthusiastic riding can "fix" chicken strips, but you can let me know if I'm mistaken.)

Cheers,

John.

I still have all my chicken strips, ok to keep them on for road use, hit a patch of diesel or sand whilst leant over too much (happened many times to me) & it's game over or by heck makes one nip tha ass..
I've done many miles on a GSA & rather than scrub the tyre edges the tyres eventually square off, I'll put that down to slightly aggressive filtering & getting from A2B quickly..
I've had MANY sportsbikes keen to TRY to keep up.. (I think maybe 1 has overtaken me) can't remember precisely where but I expected him to be on the front of the next lorry coming the other way..

Also I have a 2007 K1200s that has NO chicken strips, it flies but the riding style & lean angles seem different, thereby maintaining the curved profile.