Chicken strips

[wylee]

Timmy,

I've seen you ride, you got nothing to prove to these guys. left my ass in the dust.

I hope nobody has to prove anything on the street....ride your own ride and live to ride another day.

[seth399]

Lately, I prefer pop corn chicken to chicken strips...either of them are damn tastey though

[richw]

OK fun quiz

Why do tires wear more on left side ?

[Pittenger5]

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Why do tires wear more on left side ?

Easier to grab throttle hanging to the left?

That and rotaries

[keeena]

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Why do tires wear more on left side ?

More miles turning left than right on US roads (drivers on the right hand side of road).

What do i win?

[Jayspeed]

Well, left hand curves are less scary than right handers. Right handers over cooked will send you into oncoming traffic. Left hand turns are more confident, although guard rails, signs, trees etc... arn't that appealing either.

[richw]

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Note you can also usually turn to the right better than left

[Kham]

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Why do tires wear more on left side ?

he's talking about car tires. for highway drivers the exits and on ramp are on right side. so wear more on left side. the bike would wear more on right side and middle.

[Paul_E_D]

At MSF, we see people struggle to turn right more often. Throttle control is tougher because your right wrist gets pinched as the bars turn right.

[klepsta]

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Why do tires wear more on left side ?

Coriolis effect?

[OreoGaborio]

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Why do tires wear more on left side ?

Because Loudon is counter clockwise.



Getting back on topic, I had no chicken strips with only 4 months of riding under my belt.... and I was by no means a proficient rider. I'll look at the tires of a rider I haven't ridden with to get an idea of where they're at, but I don't put a whole lot of importance on them because sometimes the strips lie.

[zaltzy]

what is a chicken strip???? and how can i start a new thread?

[markbvt]

Chicken strips are fun to look at (and get rid of), but ultimately they're meaningless. Example: my V-Strom 650 has no chicken strips because the tire has a relatively flat profile and it's easy to lean the bike far enough to eliminate the chicken strips. My Triumph Bonneville cafe racer has a 150 rear tire on a relatively narrow rim, so the tire's tread profile is very rounded and wraps far around to the side of the tire. It wouldn't be possible to get rid of the chicken strips on that bike because it would drag hard parts before the edge of the tread got scrubbed.

--mark

[OreoGaborio]

what is a chicken strip???? and how can i start a new thread?

the "shiny" part of your tire near the edges, where it doesn't touch the ground.

[zaltzy]

ahhhhhh i seee thank you for the knowledge haha

[ThisBitch]

I have 1/8" on mine, but I don't think the location of the pegs would let me scrub that. I had the bike leaned so far over yesterday that the pegs were scraping and they're still there

[G21forme]

I got a solid half inch on me new tires not really a peg issue I'm just a poosay.

[RacerXnh10]

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Why do tires wear more on left side ?

Because righties have an easier time turning to the left. It feels more natural. When I do spins wakeboarding I'm far more comfortable spinning counter-clockwise, and that is also the direction ovals are raced.

[bigred875]

because the road is crowned

[ff36buell]

Well, until I hit the track I never really went fast enough to scrub the tires all the way... now I get questions about what is wrong w/ my tires, strips on the street are ok from what I have gathered. Or maybe, I just suck that bad

[Hardleft]

Left turns (from a stop) are generally about three times as long as right turns. The left side wears out more.


I had very small chicken strips on my first bike. This did not indicate that I was a good rider. I was leaning the wrong away and scraping the pegs even on slower turns.

[CEO]

Chicken strips are fun to look at (and get rid of), but ultimately they're meaningless. Example: my V-Strom 650 has no chicken strips because the tire has a relatively flat profile and it's easy to lean the bike far enough to eliminate the chicken strips. My Triumph Bonneville cafe racer has a 150 rear tire on a relatively narrow rim, so the tire's tread profile is very rounded and wraps far around to the side of the tire. It wouldn't be possible to get rid of the chicken strips on that bike because it would drag hard parts before the edge of the tread got scrubbed.

--mark

Exactly.
That's a good point about tire profile... the tires that came with my bike were much rounder, whereas the corsa IIIs have a much more aggressive profile. They take much more lean to use all of them. And they're so sticky

[Jim]

wait...you guys dont use sandpaper to scrub off your chicken strips

[Kham]

I have 1/8" on mine, but I don't think the location of the pegs would let me scrub that. I had the bike leaned so far over yesterday that the pegs were scraping and they're still there

i think it might have to do with the type of tire profile. i wouldn't try any further if i were you. now post the pic of scrap peg.

now if you have PP tire and you dont hang off all the time, it just means you haven't push hard enough. doesn't mean you can't or won't.

[keeena]

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