Knobbly tires
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@riley_racer I highly recommend a change of knobbly’s or checking your tire pressures. Remember when you buy a knobbly for a road legal bike always consider the contact patch with the road and the way that changes/can be effected when you lean into corners. Some knobbly’s just flat out don’t offer any support on the shoulders of the tire which as you can imagine is quite unsafe
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I have an interesting spare rear now I think of it it has nobblies but is more flat on the corners of the tyre so you can corner properly on the road I swapped it out though because it made me crash off-road since you can't corner off-road on that tyre I'll get the name of it so i can post it because it's a good tyre if you just want to do green lanes
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@declan good job being informative. Most people say “blah blah” tyres good or bad without any evidence as to why other then their own preferences and experiences. It makes it very confusing and hard to get a conclusive answer when trying to find a decent tyre.
I think Ryan over at fort nine did an amazing job explaining this and anything I haven’t mentioned
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@Stevie-Wonder yeah that's why I use trial tyres mate
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@riley_racer I got served a section 51 riding field the other day. Needless to say the rozza’s definitely have me in my feels about my my off road usage
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@Stevie-Wonder ah sorry to hear that mate, I've been doing classic trials since I was wee, so I know where all the BOAT's are in my area
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@Stevie-Wonder Can't help feeling like you brought that on yourself...what with us being on lockdown?
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@Calum I keep forgetting we're in lockdown... yeah not surprised then @Stevie-Wonder
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@Calum said in Knobbly tires:
@Stevie-Wonder Can't help feeling like you brought that on yourself...what with us being on lockdown?
Alas alas I’d popped to shops and decided to use the jet washes at the Tesco in the process to give the bike a clean, however literally opposite there’s a field / track all the local yoofs and ‘oodlums rag their pitty’s around so I thought I’d stop there make a couple passes and leave. Got there and bumped into a cousin ive not seen in 9 years make a couple passes and then two squad cars pull up at the car park closest and instinctively I pin it across the field. I was honestly just having a convo with my cousin when they pulled up and see I have the greatest respect for the police, most of them at least. It’s just past experiences have it hardwired in my head that actually the best place you can be to avoid trouble is no where near them to begin with. You can’t be in trouble if you’re not there right? I admit that it was pretty silly really. Innocent people don’t run, you only get them excited for a chase and they won’t treat you like you’re innocent either.
Unfortunately though lockdown and that they sent 4 squad cars and an unmarked Mercedes towards the Estate I came out from and surrounded me. I was pretty upset to be honest, I only wanted to be alone and wash my bike. Not get served a potential section 51, points for no L plates, fines and the rest of it. I wonder what would’ve happened if I approached them first though. I admit that was not a smart choice and if it was a traffic cop not an irritated sergeant they would’ve tried to have my bike off me.
Annoyed at myself a bit too because any other time I’m riding trails, some fields or accidentally find myself on what I didn’t realise is private land and meet people I always cut the engine take my helmet off, introduce myself and shake hands and because of that I’ve only ever ever made friends with people and gained a lot of trust and respect that allows me to ride places other people don’t. Only issue is the section 51 means if any of the locals call police rather then just speaking to me (or our district chancellor that I’ve grown up with) and I get caught riding dirt etc then they have full legal power to take the bike
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@Stevie-Wonder yeah it's s bit shitty when you just want to be left alone and not bother anyone then you have the chavs blast around on the stolen bikes and they're untouched
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Well it was pretty funny, they where wound up about me not social distancing but had a total of 8 officers there
I can imagine they weren’t too impressed, I literally saw one little cop car spot me coming out onto the road and then a whole regiment turns up like you’d just got a three star wanted level Definitely no excuse for l plates, although I was planning to do my bike test before lockdownAlso to be fair to the local boys in my area it’s only a small group of people who rob bikes and they’re always the young scroates from Jaywick. You might have heard of there from a channel 4 documentary that did the rounds
. I will actually defend the local boys though, they’re all well behaved, knowledgeable and just passionate bikes despite what their tracksuits say. I know a couple boys with road legal RM’s, KTM’s and YZ’s. They took better care of them then they do their own health and annoying the only reason they get into trouble is because everyone just see’s them as a collective of chavs. Not kids, teenagers, young adults and adults that all share the some passion of riding bikes. Honestly some of these guys I can tell you now would probably be in prison rather then with their children if it wasn’t for bikes and having something like that as an outlet. Every single one of them has helped me out without battering an eyelid, it gets my back up no one gives us/them a chance or place to ride. It’s not like youth clubs get any funding or the youth get any type of help lately to be honest -
@Stevie-Wonder your areas better than mine then
