Tyres scrub in - how long.

[Corporal Punishment]

Put some new Conti TKC 80's on the DRz this morning and went for a quick carefull spin to scrub them in. Out on the driveway later on the wheel was spinning out under hard acceleration. Not very confidence inspiring and I don't remember any new road tyres doing this when new.

I'm just wondering do enduro tyres take a bit extra to fully srub in???

 

[luke scott]

Mark in Platinum had me drive "easy" for around 120km's.

 

[HP2 KENOBE]

AFIK the first few yards are the most dangerous for new tyres and the risk of a problem tapers off as you use the bike. But if you rode straight to Dublin on new tyres (160 miles) I'd take it easy on the roundabouts.
A guy I know collected his bike after getting tyres fitted and ended up on the deck in the carpark with a lot of cosmetic damage and a broken foot rest, no helmet on and in a t-shirt, he was lucky not to do more damage. And a friend of mine scrubs in his tyres with an angle grinder with a wire brush after a similiar experience.

 

[john_aero]

have done about 500hm on new tyres on cb1000,

wheni push bike over onto parts that not used much like steep turns you still feel it get slippy

some use scotchbrite pads to scuff up the tyres just to be safe

 

[MarkShelley]

I think it depends how careful the fitter has been with the slimy stuff.
If you ever catch me manually scrubbing in tyres please shoot me.

 

[Giles]

If you ever catch me manually scrubbing in tyres please shoot me.

... will do ..

 

[john_aero]

I think it depends how careful the fitter has been with the slimy stuff.
If you ever catch me manually scrubbing in tyres please shoot me.

nothing to do with the fitter, its the mould release agent that manu uses.

some of the hard rubber tyres (mitas for example) have lot of mould release as they rubber is not as flexible and hard get out of mould so they are dodgey for the 1st 500km

 

[Corporal Punishment]

Sound - thanks for all the replies lads.

 

[Vern]

It's a dirt bike, so go and give it a good leathering around in the dirt,then when you fall off, it's because of the mud on the tyres and not the release agent

 

[electric_monk]

Any time I fitted new tyres to the GS I would always take them up onto the fire roads around the mountains, as Vern suggested the gravel and dirt do seem to help scrub them in quicker.

 

[Smug]

Go for a good blast on dry grippy roads. Get it cranked over but don't give it too much welly coming out of the bends. 100 miles should be more than enough.

Most important dry and grippy

 

[electric_monk]

Go for a good blast on dry grippy roads.

Poor advice in my book, he's in feckin' Ireland

Worse still, he's in fecking Cork

 

[john_aero]

It's a dirt bike, so go and give it a good leathering around in the dirt,then when you fall off, it's because of the mud on the tyres and not the release agent

best advice yet

 

[Aidan1150]

Fitted Dunlop TR91's last year in Tandragee and after a lap of the Tandragee 100 course with Shapeshifter they were dead on. Plenty of lean angle with no heroics is the way to do it as Smug says.

 

[Colm Cummins]

Tyres

Fitted Dunlop TR91's last year in Tandragee and after a lap of the Tandragee 100 course with Shapeshifter they were dead on. Plenty of lean angle with no heroics is the way to do it as Smug says.

As you say Aidan, smooth as you go and little more lean each corner does it.

 

[Fanum]

When you ride on any tyres, even well worn in ones, do people ride to a limit that they 'expect' the tyre to go to, or do they ride to a limit that their arse-feedback tells them is the extreme of the grip available with the variable road they are on?

Could have diesel on the road, cow shit on the tread, release agent from the tyre moulding or anything

Same as riding to the 'limit of the road you know'......bollocks, you ride to the limit of the road you can see, or you will end up impaled on the baling forks of a hay lifter that you couldn't see around the corner

 

[Colm Cummins]

Hppy St Patricks Day to you

When you ride on any tyres, even well worn in ones, do people ride to a limit that they 'expect' the tyre to go to, or do they ride to a limit that their arse-feedback tells them is the extreme of the grip available with the variable road they are on?

Could have diesel on the road, cow shit on the tread, release agent from the tyre moulding or anything

Same as riding to the 'limit of the road you know'......bollocks, you ride to the limit of the road you can see, or you will end up impaled on the baling forks of a hay lifter that you couldn't see around the corner

This is a thread for running in new tyres , careful as you go.

 

[Fanum]

This is a thread for running in new tyres , careful as you go.

Yeah I know, but you get what i mean I'm sure.

I've gone OTT there, but I stick by the principle.....you shouldn't ride at 30% power until you get to a magic advisory distance then open it up fully.......A 20 metre old tyre on a dry Scottish (hard gravel with bite) road will probably grip better than a 2 thousand mile old tyre on a damp bit of newish tarmac after 6 months of no rain and a sudden shower.

Ride to the feel and sight and ability, not to the theory or arbitrary figures that make no sense in the real world

 

[Colm Cummins]

yes

Yeah I know, but you get what i mean I'm sure.

I've gone OTT there, but I stick by the principle.....you shouldn't ride at 30% power until you get to a magic advisory distance then open it up fully.......A 20 metre old tyre on a dry Scottish (hard gravel with bite) road will probably grip better than a 2 thousand mile old tyre on a damp bit of newish tarmac after 6 months of no rain and a sudden shower.

Ride to the feel and sight and ability, not to the theory or arbitrary figures that make no sense in the real world

Yes , I know where you are coming from.

 

[beatmeier]

When you ride on any tyres, even well worn in ones, do people ride to a limit that they 'expect' the tyre to go to, or do they ride to a limit that their arse-feedback tells them is the extreme of the grip available with the variable road they are on?
Could have diesel on the road, cow shit on
the tread, release agent from the tyre moulding or anything

Same as riding to the 'limit of the road you know'......bollocks, you ride to the limit of the road you can see, or you will end up impaled on the baling forks of a hay lifter that you couldn't see around the corner

yeah get some common sense ....and on top of it
every ride is a new one.....the tyre is cold and maybe has picked up dust and dirt whilst standing around

so start slowly and progress when the situation allows it steadily .....thats how you get fast and old