Originally Posted by crxnfx
he has been riding for more than 20 years, taken numerous schools, driven in more than a dozen countries. He's taken his bikes (plural) to the Nuremburg Ring, Hockenheim, Elkhart Lake to name a few. And I have NEVER seen him take sand paper to his tires. The ride from where his tire shredded to our house was about 5 km. he was getting a little shakey on the on ramp but he couldn't believe it when he low sided coming into the house.
And you got all pissed off over nothing and completely missed my point........
New tires slipping have NOTHING to do with getting warmed up.
When tires are new they have this coating on them that makes them slippery as hell. Any shop will tell you to take it easy on new tires for about the first 100 miles or so, to give that shit some time to get eaten off the tires.
I put on new shoes every race weekend; and no matter how much time the warmers stay on them they will be slippery for the first few laps. That's what we call "scrubbing" new tires in.
I was jokingly saying that he could have taken sandpaper to them and would have done a hell of allot more for the tires than trying to warm them up.
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