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Dfbutler
Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 02:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just put a new set of Metzler M3s on my bike. They came with the usual warning that new tires are slippery and should be cautious for the first 50 miles or so. That is well and good, but how do you safely scuff the sides?
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Nillaice
Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 02:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

scotch brite pads... sand paper.... or just an empty lot, preferably with out painted white lines
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Nillaice
Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 02:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

it all depends on your own definition of safely
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Etennuly
Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 03:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah, tight figure eights in the school parking lot. Doesn't take much on a warm day.
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86129squids
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 02:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

MCN or one of the other mags mentioned several methods, including a wire brush.

Seems like a light electric pad sander would do well with proper bike stands, etc.
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Crusty
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 07:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just be easy on acceleration and cornering for the first few miles. The mold release/preservative will wear off quickly. My wife and I did a 300 mile ride on new tires yesterday over some very twisty roads, and it was all good.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 12:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

dont know about the metzlers, but I know every other tire I have put on the cityX behaves better after a run through the local mud hole. Seems to take all that damn mold release agent right off in a quickness
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Bigblock
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 12:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

some denatured alcohol on a rag, let it dry good before you ride... Only takes a minute.
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Gregtonn
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 02:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Five miles of gravel roads.

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Sleez
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 04:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

i always use simple green and a scotchbrite pad. then ride easy for awhile.
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