rear tire changing help needed...

[MaximPhil]

A tire thread! You gotta love it. But hey, there is very little activity on the site these days. I suspect that one could go to the car wash and hit the new tires with detergent. I don't really think that it takes that many miles to scrub-in tires. The thing to remember is that you definitely don't want the contact patch to move over to the side too far onto the virgin zones by taking hard turns. I have heard of people dumping there bikes right in the parking lot of the cycle shop with brand new tires.

hi Skids,
I have scrubbed the tire with dish detergent and rinsed with water which removed q lot but not all. Ofcourse this only works if you have the wheel off and are at home. I think it is a combination of the friction and heat of riding that takes it off. Depends on weather conditions as to how fast that occurs.
Phil

[jetmechmarty]

Hey Eric,

No backlash, just glad to hear you've gotten some good tread on there now.

My bike had died/tranny crapped in '92, parked it, sat outside for 8 years with Dunlop Elite II's ($$) on it. Spent a couple of grand rebuilding it in 2000 with big bore kit, etc, and the budget ran low by the time I got around to the tires. The rear still had plenty of tread depth, and so I also used it....surprisingly much longer and more dangerously than what you did. I rode it on my first rally trip from Va. to Alexandria Bay, NY and back, and then out to West Va. and back, and then another trip down to Suches, GA. Upon my Friday arrival, a fellow Xsive checked out my rear tire, and let me know I was running bald! In the twisties when I would do some downgearing, it would break loose a little and slide the rear a little, but I adjusted for it!

So...we got up a little earlier that Saturday, rode into town, got a new Elite II put on it right there in the parking lot, and made it back to camp for breakfast and the day's ride! Like you said, it was a difference of night and day. No more slipping and sliding in the corners! I also took it easy for the first 50 or so miles to help scrub off the release agent, and then it was yanking and banking with the group!

T.C.

A little late, but I'll provide the photographic evidence from 2003.



Did you get 108 ft lbs on that with those water pumps?

[Fields11789]

Impact gun for sure.