Tyre Adhesion

It all started about 6 weeks ago when the roads had a definitly greasy
feel to them, backed up by The Hobbit. However, a few days rain sorted
that out, but they still felt greasy. Hmmm...check tyre pressure, a few
PSI under corrected to book value. No change. A few PSI more and no
affect. Now, I'd say it was me, but The Hobbit reports doing exactly
the same think to his Kwak 750 with similar lack of result.

The ambient is around 8C, both bikes ('Bird and kwak), feel the same but
didn't until recently. Roads clean and dry.

What could be causing this?

 

I did consider it, but the Dwarf has lost his as well if thats the case.

 

Runs in the family then. I'd be careful if I were you.

 

Hmmm...

Poor road surface.

Pollution.

Tyres not properly warm.

Worn tyres.

List goes on...

IME the roads round here have been fine.

 

Don't think so.

This is what I thought. But how long would you think to warm them up?
10 minutes? 20 minutes?

Ok, I'll pop out for a blast in the week and get them properly warm and
see if it makes any difference.

That's what's worrying me. The tarmac seems fine.

 

Depends on the tyre, doesn't it?

Those with a construction aimed at road use take longer to heat (and cool)
than race tyres. The trade off is that they last longer. I've no idea what
tyres you use, but I'd expect this to be a factor.

What tyres are you using, out of interest?

Be more difficult with the colder weather coming...

 

I would have thought the above to be untrue...

Surely a track biased tyre would take longer to warm up than a road use
biased tyre due to the level of abuse a track tyre is designed to take

 

Are you actually slipping and sliding, or just feeling that it might be
slipping and sliding if you went any quicker?

I always seem to suffer from the latter in wet or winter conditions, but
this is apparently because I ride like a girl, not a limitation of the
bike or the tyres.

 

Where is this Nirvana with good road surfacing? Not London that's for
sure.

 

I didn't say a long time, I said longer then a road biased tyre...

I wonder what the difference would be between something like a BT014 and
something purely for the track subjected to the same abuse, I was under the
impression that a track tyre would take longer to get up to the same temp
because the trade off would be that it had to withstand so much more.

OK.. I live and learn

 

Dunlop D205s so touring basically.

Hoh yes, that idea got canned went it was reading -2 this morning. I
might be at the harder end of motorcycling, but bombing about in -2 just
for pleasure, sod that.

 

Well, its a bit tricky to tell to be honest. It's sort of like that
feeling when your tyre pressure is a bit down, but it *feels* like the
bike is 'oozing' out of the bend. It's a very odd sensation, and truth
be known, if it wasn't what someone else was experiencing as well, I'd
put it down to gipperness.

I'm up for a bit of argy bargy, but not your knee down stuff, although
pegs grind often enough to keep me awake.

 

About 30 miles south of Frankfurt, but anywhere outside of Belgium will
be alright.