Tyre tread depth.

Alas gone are the days you could get away with: "its a racing slick
officer".

 

Thanks.

 

Cheap Chinese tyre feel horrible at any depth.

 

I'm sure they do, i don't think I'll bother..

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike

 

That's a bit worrying - the front tyre has grooves that taper to nothing at
the edges from new.

 

Thanks.

 

Although they feel horrible, they do grip much better than expected on the
rare occasions I throw it about (just not in the wet).

 

I think that's *after* you see the canvas...

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Years ago I had a front tyre that had grooves crossing on the
diagonal: one diagonal was considerably shallower than the other. I
never really knew whether the losing the shallow grooves counted as
'worn out'.

 

Years ago I run the bike in gear on the centre stand while I poured oil on
the chain, a flint in the gravel was standing proud and cut a shallow groove
in the back tyre.

A few days later a nosey plod pointed at the shallow groove and asked "is
that the tread?", I explained about the chain oiling and the flint standing
proud and pointed out "look, you can see the groove is off centre", plod
just grunted and walked off.

 

Heh. Ours looked like that about 150 miles from Amsterdam on the way
home a few years ago. "Let's risk it" said Pat - which was the right
answer.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

<scribbles in official notebook>

Make a habit of this, do we sir? Only I'm thinking of the (frankly
shocking) state of your rear tyre on the last FrogTrip.

I note that you and Pat are apparently serial offenders in the "riding
on very thin rubber" stakes.

Oh, I *see*. Led astray by a woman! You should have said. On you go sir,
have a good trip. Evening all...

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go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Damn - I'd forgotten about that.

<g> We're getting more sensible. This time we got a new tyre fitted in
Southampton before heading home.

 

I just prefer a bit of meat on the tyres, I change them around 2-3mm
dependant on how they wear (4x4's somethimes can be a bit off)

I actually meant, it's quite easy to forget that the tyres are very close to
1.6mm, like me forgetting to MOT the car]

Down at 1mm? Crikey. I must admit, the ZZR is the bike i am thinking about
too

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike