"Plugging" a scooter tire with a nail in it? [think]  By  floridagull (Read 7,558 times)

I believe you Kat. I've had some un-sticky tires on my cars over the years. They howled like a banshee on cloverleafs. The original OEM tires on my '72 Toyota were hazardous in the rain. They didn't stick at all and hydroplaned in the wet. Everybody has had at least one set of tires that were hard as rocks.

Not motorcycle tires, but still upsetting--

I'm having the bike shop fix up Mom's Schwinn for me to ride around. I've had it hanging from the ceiling so the tires wouldn't get cracked. Instead they dry-rotted. Brand new tires that never touched the street, thrown out. Of course, it's been at least five years if not more that I hung the bikes. But still....

So new tires CAN go bad.

Bothers me to throw out something that has never been used, that should still be good.

>'Kat

I run an am63 Avon Viper Stryke up front and a steel belted Pirelli Diablo in back. Cheap tires just aren't worth the hassle. (or potential danger)

I use Cheng Shin tires whenever I can. They give reasonable mileage and enough traction for me. The one in the back of my 150cc scooter even came from Taiwan so name doesn't necessarily mean poor quality. My Fashion is doing well with the Shinkos on it. They were the cheapest tires I could find in the size I needed.

I don't care where it's from as long as it's round and holds air. I don't ride hard enough at this age to worry about it. My 750 Kawasaki has Dunlops now but I won't be buying expensive tires like that later.

Well, it's totally moot 'cause there's no way to check on it.

Although I'll point out that it wasn't alignment that slid my car across the road 'til the left front hit the ditch and flipped the car. It was crappy tires that never regained traction.

I freely admit I'm NOT mechanical, and I'll joke about being dumb blonde, but I think I can tell sliding tires. I've stomped on brakes enough, I know what a skid feels like. (interesting note--while I'm a terrible brake-stomper & thank God for ABS on newish car, I am not the equivalent on my scoot. Last MSF class in the panic stop, they told me I hit that point just below locking my brakes. Go fig that one)



Thank you, w650.

Yeah, thinking on it, I betcha they were sun-baked tires. I remember seeing tire-stacks behind service stations when I was little, waiting in my folks' cars while the serviceman pumped gas and everything. Lots of tires all over, usually.

>'Kat