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