Spent about 4 hours this morning driving around in Essex, found some great little roads out and about. However, I do have new tyres so was taking it relatively easy but was out there for about 3 hours and I think I finally got them down to the point where I can start to work on the chicken strips.
Let me know what you think, or if I need to scrub them in more before I start to work on taking out the chicken strips.
how many miles did you do on them?
whats all that black stuff all over the wheel?
Since they were put on.
55miles from the shop to my house, lot of motorway.
Then this morning, I filled up the bike and I only had 30miles on it when i parked it in the garage, so it must have been at 85 when I filled it up and when I put it back in the garage I think I had put another 80 miles on it. So perhaps 120 miles?
You mean on the rims StuntMartin? That is just dirt, tis the curse of white rims! they were cleaned when I had the tyres put on, and they still look dity after just 180 odd miles of dry riding.
i hate white wheels
So do I. Such a pain to keep clean.
No, these are scrubbed 
http://londonbikers.com/forums/Topic708704-58-1.aspxDon’t be a poof Kaos, tyres today are almost ready to go, they only need a few miles to take the shine off. I had a brand new tyre on the K7 last night for the FNR a compound I’ve never used before either. If you keep thinking and worrying about them then you will feck up.
Just don’t expect to get your knee down on the first corner or you will be asking for trouble 
Use your head and be guided by the ‘feel’ of your bike.
True enough Ang, I felt pretty good by the end of my morning sessions, I think I found the BCR route from HH, some pretty scary bends, if I was completely honest…if cars had been coming in the opposite direction it would have been quite worrying, sometimes I had to use more of the road then I planned going into the corner…not the best situation to be in.
By the end of the session though the tyres felt pretty good, still getting used to them though, they are quite different from the Battleax BT014s I had on before, much better i think.
Dude, man up…
I used new tyres for a trackday, 3 warm up laps later and they were ready to be raped…
if they got that many miles on them they will be fine, once they get warm the ‘shine’ starts to go…juts be gentle with them when they are new, and remember to build lean angles up slowly as you will be leaning on unsed new rubber the more you lean.
Got me knee down this afternoon, for the first time ever, on them…very briefly but still, and they were fine, got about 1-2mm of chicken strip on the left hand side to lose but the right hand side is clear to the edge.
Well done! I guess the hard bit (getting the confidence to lean combined with the right positioning) is done.
No matter how many people tell you to man up, you take it at your own pace mate!
nice one Kaos:)
Video to come
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Cheers Alex really appreciate the advice and the photos!
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Man that video is crazy Alex, I had no idea I was that close all the way around on that try, felt like I was miles off and then dipped down to get it, but from the video I was literally a few inches away the entire time
Yep it’s crazy how strange it feels at first!
