How long does it take to break in new motorcycle tires ?
- Friday Oct 23,2009 05:10 PM
- By diddy
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I just bought a brand new pair of Bridgestone BT-016’s for my R6. How many miles will it take for them to break-in ? I’ve put about 100 miles on them just commutting to/from work but I am trying to go riding on Sunday and hittin up them curves!
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Distance really has nothing to do with it. Its how far you have leaned the bike.
What I do is go to a nice corner nearby ( fairly sharp so you don’t need much speed) . Go back and forth at a certain lean angle, then repeat it with increasing lean angles each time. My rule of thumb is to have the "virgin" rubber taking up no more than 1/4 of the contact patch. After about half an hour you will have a nicely scrubbed in set of tyres.
You have just completed their running in period pal. 160 Kms or 100 miles. So… you just go and have a blast !
you should be ok they say 100miles to break in to get the slippery stuff off havefun be careful ride whith in your ability!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know about Bridgestones, but I’ve got Michelin Goldlines on my bike (not a sportie) and it seems to me like they took about 3000 miles!! Must be a hard-as compound. I’d say ride gradually harder until you feel uncomfortable. Any decent tyre will give plenty of seat-of-the-pants warning, unless it’s a racing compound.
What I used to do to my sports bike tires in order to make them fully usable from new was to scrub the treads over with a sanding pad soaked in paint thinners.This removes the waxed coating left behind from the moulding. Then wash them with soapy water to remove the thinners.
I have Dunlops on my R6 and they recommend about 150-200 miles for you to break them in and get used to them.
Go easy on them at first, get ‘em warmed up and have fun!
actually it only takes around 75 miles to truely burn um in so have some fun and pop dem wheelies
I’t depends on how you ride them in
If you hit a corner and start sliding….. run it in a bit more
(depends on wat speed you do)
I’m comfortable by 100 miles.
I scrub my new tires down with a Scothbrite pad and dish detergent, followed by a good rinse.
Then I spin the rear in the sandy dirt driveway.
It works for me.
Most say 50 miles but I do 100 just to be sure.
just ride it carefully for a few days
I agree with Firestormer–it’s not the miles, it’s the lean angle. You want to rough up the surface you are apt to use. If you don’t want to ride in circles, I suggest you take it easy in your daily riding then gradually and smoothly add more and more lean angle till you have leaned over about as far as you ever would in normal riding. Look at your tires and you’ll see a lighter gray dullness in the center where you usually ride. That shiny blackness on the edges is still a bit slick. Add and take away lean angle SMOOTHLY. Ease that bike down to the apex. Don’t throw it around like a toy–well, at least not until your tires are scuffed in and warmed up!
I would say 100 Miles of mixed riding.
Just 100 miles of highway will only scrub the center of the tires and send you lowsiding with the first good lean. So mix it up, taking corners slow at first, then increasing in speed untill you are back where you were before.
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