Originally Posted by CBR600F4
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 thought it'd be more than 100 miles...but I'm pretty new to bikes so I'll take your word.
Im assuming that your track tires/slicks have less of a coating from the molding machine or whatever the factory uses? Or are your first couple of laps at the track ridden pretty 'hard' to get rid of the coat?