| Author | Message | ||
     Etennuly |
In these pictures you can see mold tits on these tires.   These are Michelin Pilot Power 2TCs. I have mounted them for a customer. They are not really what I would call a lot of big or excessive mold tits. but I have witnessed a buddy trash his newly modified KZ1000 years back because of them. I am doing as I always do in my business, if it is questionable just fix it, so I am shaving them off before this bike goes out the door. The rubber is quite soft and I doubt it would be a problem, but I don't run my business on doubts. None of the other tires I have been mounting on bikes has had mold tits present. You can often see where the tire factory folks have shaved them off. I was just wondering what you all would do if they were yours or if anyone has seen Michelin leave them on before. | ||
| Jhallgren |
I had them on my Michelin PR2's. I just took it easy for the first 100 miles of use. No hard acceleration or hard cornering. I tried to keep my distance so I would not have to break hard just in case. They wore off in the first 75 miles. | ||
| Froggy |
I once heard "If it has tits or tires, you are gonna have problems". Now tires with tits, thats a whole nother can of worms. Oh and if they were mine, I'd just ride them. | ||
| Ourdee |
I doubt it was the mold tits that caused him to crash. It was probably mold release that was still on the tires. Need to scrub in new tires. | ||
| Luftkoph |
ten dash four on the mold release. | ||
| Etennuly |
The buddy of mine who wrecked had new Carslile tires back in the late '70's. It had ten times as many tits on the tread and the rubber was harder. I don't think that the mold release would even had been touched on his tires until the tits wore off. Like riding on rubber bearings. I shaved these off so that the customer can still have his new treads. I could have gone out and scrubbed them in really good for him.....but.....remind me to tell you that story some time. |
