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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2014, 01:51:06 AM »
I have 35 psi in my rear tire...

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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2014, 04:08:41 AM »
I have 35 psi in my rear tire...

40 rear, 33 front. The bike weighs 98 pounds wet. Aint you jealous!
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2014, 05:26:47 PM »
40 rear, 33 front. The bike weighs 98 pounds wet. Aint you jealous!
That would seem to equate to a total of 1 square inch of tire contact, each end.....and a ride like a bar of soap in the wet.
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2014, 10:17:04 PM »
NNNooooo!

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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2014, 12:31:20 PM »
That would seem to equate to a total of 1 square inch of tire contact, each end.....and a ride like a bar of soap in the wet.

i dont think so... The tire would be "slicing" the water ... No hydroplaning.... And with a soft rubber compound.... Tire will stick to the road....

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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #35 on: May 12, 2014, 01:33:01 PM »
Hi Stig.

My DT300 (2900 miles) has the standard Maxxis tyres and the rear tyre now has the exact same wear as evidenced in your photos.

The rear tyres on a number of my previous maxi scooters (different makes and engine sizes) went the same way.

Could be trait of CVT driven rear wheels.
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #36 on: May 12, 2014, 10:04:58 PM »
Hi Stig.

My DT300 (2900 miles) has the standard Maxxis tyres and the rear tyre now has the exact same wear as evidenced in your photos.

The rear tyres on a number of my previous maxi scooters (different makes and engine sizes) went the same way.

Could be trait of CVT driven rear wheels.
Thanks a lot Mitch for your reply.
This squares with what I have read elsewhere.
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #37 on: May 12, 2014, 11:18:48 PM »
All the effort that went into explaining why they cup, and the fellas come up w/ "it's a scooter thing"

I get it. I'm chopped liver riding a crooked stick with bars of soap for tires.

Too late now... My feelings have been CRUSHED!  :'(
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #38 on: May 12, 2014, 11:50:27 PM »
When I was ten there was a "treaded slick" on the back of my Schwinn Stingray.  I'll bet one of those whould solve all of Stig's problems.
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #39 on: May 13, 2014, 01:08:59 AM »
When I was ten there was a "treaded slick" on the back of my Schwinn Stingray.  I'll bet one of those whould solve all of Stig's problems.

or a cup of coffee... ;D

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« Reply #40 on: May 13, 2014, 01:10:12 AM »
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Re: Tire Cupping??
« Reply #41 on: June 23, 2014, 01:18:32 PM »
I've experienced the same sort of cupping on the OEM tires on my Yager GT 200i, almost all the way over to the edge (tiny chicken strips on my tires, if I lean any further, I scrape). I started seeing it at around 6500 miles, on both front and rear. More pronounced on the front.

When I'm leaned way in on a high speed turn (a 35 MPH curve taken at 70 MPH, for instance), I can feel the bike kind of "squirming" a bit, like the tires are slipping then catching. Pushing the inner handlebar outward (ie: taking a left-hand curve, steer right a very slight amount) and leaning outward a bit to compensate seems to smooth it out. So it's perhaps a result of being a bit too aggressive in the curves.

Strangely, I only notice it doing this on curves that are sloped (ie: the roadway is sloped toward the inner radius of the curve). Not sure why.

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