New Tryes and then fell off!

[James Embrey]

Swapped from Mitch road trye to Conti TCK 80's today. Was very suprised to find bike was very good on road, seems to turn in quicker and alot more stable than I thought. Anyway I then decided to try my off road skills which are not great but I am planning on some practice or the next few weeks. The whole idea of changing tyres is to do more off roading. Spent afternoon ripping up some corn stubles and grass fields, so far so good. Moved to stone yard next and ended up flicking the bike over and ending up on my ass. Turns out these old girls crash well, apart from some scuffed engine crash bars everything else was fine. Was only going very slowly at time and everything on my bike is loose, i don't think it will be the last time she goes down!

James

 

[Les Wassall]

Very lucky could have been worse.

 

[jtw000]

Could have been much worse, you could have stayed on the road and died of boredom

 

[James Embrey]

Bored on road

I agree but roads are soooooooo boring. Driven everything else off road from combine harvestors, tractors, quads, pick ups (do alot of rabbit shooting at night) so now need to master GS off road. You see so much more of the country side and I live in Shropshire 4 miles away from the Long Mynd so plenty of green lanes etc to ride.

J

 

[R17GSR]

New tyres have a release coating on tem wich needs scrubbing off, youwont do that on grass, you need good old tarmac, concrete road surfaces to do that. Basically you were riding on ice.
The release agent is usedby the tyre manufacturers to release the new tyre from the mold.

 

[(RIP) ugg]

New tyres have a release coating on tem wich needs scrubbing off, youwont do that on grass, you need good old tarmac, concrete road surfaces to do that. Basically you were riding on ice.
The release agent is usedby the tyre manufacturers to release the new tyre from the mold.

I used to scrub in my tyres on the gixer by goin flat out for a few miles as far as i could, soon wore the coating off. or ye fell off

tarmac is the best abrasive surface goin


ugg

 

[MartinL]

New tyres have a release coating on tem wich needs scrubbing off, youwont do that on grass, you need good old tarmac, concrete road surfaces to do that. Basically you were riding on ice.
The release agent is usedby the tyre manufacturers to release the new tyre from the mold.

Nothing to do with the mud and Sh*te on 'em then??

 

[Timolgra]

New tyres have a release coating on tem wich needs scrubbing off, youwont do that on grass, you need good old tarmac, concrete road surfaces to do that. Basically you were riding on ice.
The release agent is usedby the tyre manufacturers to release the new tyre from the mold.

Yes you'll notice every offroader from Moto crosser to Dakar Rally rider always scrub their knobblies in

 

[Steptoe]

i don't think it will be the last time she goes down!

James

lets hope not

 

[John Armstrong]

Yes you'll notice every offroader from Moto crosser to Dakar Rally rider always scrub their knobblies in

Must be painfull

 

[BegesRus]

nice of the old-girl to go down on you like that - and on a Wednesday