Sandman said:
CORDS SHOWING? You're kidding, right? The wear bar indicators in most tires are the gauge of wear limits, and around here tires usually get flat spotted bad enough to throw off handling before that point. Tire profile is squared---> bike feels terrible/funky as it rolls over flat edge to rounded portion in any cornering.
Unless you did burnouts at the end to finish it off:rofl
The tire was wearing unevenly. I rode to Grand Rapids, then to my Parents house near Ann Arbor. I put on 500 miels before I even ahd ot head home. I was at the wear indicator when I started, but I figured I could make it. Then I looked at the more worn part heading home. Yikes. To make it bakc I onl;y went 70mph, increased he tire pressure to 40psi, dropped my front preload all the way down and increased the rear preload a little. I also reduced the rear dampening. Around freeway turns I even hung off the bike in the wrong direction to increase my lean angle.
The M1's actaully don;t square off nearly as bad as the BT010's plus they had 2 track days on them. I'm picky about tire pressure and suspension settings, but a squared off tire doesn't; bother me very much.
it wasn't totally cords. I was actually at the really dark, hard rubber they use as the basis for the carcass which is about 1/16" thick or so. it actually looks liek the tire is delaminating a little.
But the plug held.
My front however is cupped pretty bad and has 3 track days on it, so I'm replacing that before my next track day even though it still has some tread left. On the street a little cupping doesn't bother me becasue I rarely brake that hard anyway.
i don;t do burnouts. It just too expensive. I'll do one sometimes the scuff the tre in a little. The mold release compound is very slick on the M1's as with most tires. I've almost ended up on a my ass a few times.