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My pics are from Sunday mornings on the Putty Rd.
(https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/...2,150.9344183,13z/data=!4m3!4m2!1m0!1m0?hl=en)
Couple of front and couple of rear (both sides).
Cheers,
Mac.
My personal opinion: you're pushing it much too hard on the street (and I'm not talking about your chicken strips, which as I mentioned above are mostly meaningless).
Do you do track days? If not, you really should consider it!
You've got a bit of a cold tear going on there.. try dropping your pressure slightly.. 1-2 psi. See how it looks after next ride. When you get the pressure right, the tire will heal itself.. those *scales* will go away.
You also have a bit of a rebound issue, but if you've got a stock rear shock, there's not much you can do about it.
Be safe out there :thumbup:
I am interested in your comments about cold tear/scales/rebound.
Could you reply (or PM me) and explain a bit more?
Cheers,
Mac.
p.s. never done a track day.
I have already had this conversation with him before and he doesn't see the point of trying to use body positioning.
In a case of a turn getting tighter out of nowhere, i have some lean angle in reserve, he would already be on the edge and screwed, didn't seem to bother him.
He was a high level cyclist, and did thousands of miles on a bicycle where you really can't lean off, maybe that's why it seems useless to him...
Thanks for your comments, just to be clear, that's not what they normally look like!
Those pics are taken after several sighting laps (at normal road speeds) to check road condition etc.
The lap we do has no houses, side streets or any other cross roads.
Once we are comfortable with the conditions we start to up the pace.
2-3 laps pushing it and that's what they look like.
Those tires are dead now, will be getting new ones when bike back together.
I am interested in your comments about cold tear/scales/rebound.
Could you reply (or PM me) and explain a bit more?
Cheers,
Mac.
p.s. never done a track day.
Correction: that's a hot tear (sorry.. haven't had my coffee yet). I'll PM you.
lol - Maybe he needs a New Lesson! :thumbup:
Well to be fair, he is a very good rider, if he wanted to he could easily outride me and leave me behind, and i would be ready to bet that he could outride a lot of knee dragging guys, he just never moves his lower body.
There was a time when even Moto GP riders rode like that!
Hugger = ∞ FAIL! Blah Is this another canbus issue? :spank::spank:
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You mean like " xxx Characters " ?
My hugger shows failure?? Ft axle bent? Bend the ft axle?
LOL.. I think Randy means your hugger is completely covering the tire, leaving no place to judge your chicken strip, or lack there of.
Here is mine.
Between you and I, I don't trust anybody else in this forum. I think they have all sanded and blow torched their rear tire.
Between you and I, I don't trust anybody else in this forum. I think they have all sanded and blow torched their rear tire.