New Tyres
"When you have a new tyre fitted onto your motorcycle, take it
easy for the first 50 miles."
This advice is as old as the hills and the source of myth and
legend in motorcycling. But it is worth repeating. Rubber is
sticky stuff. It needs to be to keep you and your bike sunny
side up. Unfortunately for the manufacturers of tyres sticky
rubber sticks to their moulding machines that make your shiny
new tyres. To stop this the manufacturers have to use slippery
stuff in the moulds so they can get the tyre out of the mould.
And this slippery stuff is all over your shiny new tyre.
So here is Mr Keen, at the tyre shop having a splendid new piece
of rubber fitted to his Kawukihonaha GCYZXRRRRRRR. He pays his