Tyre tread depth.

A quick google produced about equal number of answers in favour of 1.0mm and
1.6mm - which one is correct?

TIA.

 

If you mean minimum legal, I believe it's 1.6 on cars and 1.0 on bikes

 

1mm for bikes, 1.6mm for cars. There are a few more 'restrictions' too.

Change them both way before, ffs.

 

Agree with m'leaned posters: 1mm for bikes. There are some other
rules, such as 'across x% of the tyre width and around the entire
circumference.

Most manufacturers of bikes and tyres reccommend 2mm minimum, but
persoally, unless it's *seriously* sensitive to its tyres or used on
track (or a 'crosser) then that's a bit over-cautious IMO.

Oh, and IIRC 'visible tread' for mopeds.

 

Car - 1.6mm

Bikes - 1.00mm

Mopeds - visible tread

 

Wait until you can see the canvas.

 

Change them when the fabric is showing or when the handling goes off.
It's not as if bike tyres need grooves.

 

Wait until you can hear the steel belts.

Aren't you glad you asked?

 

I case he encounters a puddle deeper than 1 mm?

 

I've ridden a motorcycle with less than 1mm of tread through a puddle
that's deeper than 1mm, and I haven't died.

Am I some kind of Riding God?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie

No. Actually, you did die. This is heaven.

Sucks, huh?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Eh? But I'm an Unbeliever! WTF am I doing here?

I'll say. I want my money back.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie

Clerical error, I expect. It happens a lot.

Ah. Sorry, all sales are final.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

You can't do that, not according to the Sale of Gods Act.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, CT

The Sky Fairy said it's OK, so I ignore your mundane Earth-bound laws.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

You mess with the Department of Transcendence and Inquisition at your peril!

 

Depends on the expected life.

 

Ta Da!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/2797607680/sizes/o/in/set-72157594416740014/

 

A couple of reasons on a car, one it's way too easy to lose it in the wet
with no tread & too easy to get points. Second to me is feel on a bike,
unless it's been hammered sideways a lot, it will feel horrible at 1mm.

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike

 

I didn't know they used road tyres on portable scaffolding towers?

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike