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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Was just rereading the first posts on this thread and am a bit worried that people blame the retread section for the sidewall failure, surely that is subjective to the Donor tyres, I asked Ollie for two different carcass’ types as tyre pressure is a huge factor in tuning your grip levels in, i carry a small digital gauge with me in the backpack and many people struggling to get up hills and so forth blame the tyre, when reality is it has just as much to do with suspension compliance and “tyre footprint”, power application and rider input. Tyre type is one part of the equation, a big one but still just part of it.

I’m not defending or bagging any particular tyre here, just wondering about the logic used to come to these conclusions.

Bruce

[DeanMember]

So True Bruce,at the Christmas party we had at the Watagans I torqued the Gasgas up Boulders hill ( a red clay greasy sonofabitch thing) first go no problems at all. Gili on the other hand had a real bad time (normally he is the gun rider of the bunch)so we had great pleasure in pulling the Micky out of him. He was swearing and blaming the tyre,but he failed to mention at the time that he was running 18PSI :blink: In mud I run 7-9 psi.

Ollie

[drewMember]

Ollie wrote:

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Drew just checked the height of the knobs on an unused retread and it was 15mm give or take a poofteenth here and there :laugh:

Ollie

:laugh:

put the steel rule on it this morning, 10mm left. don’t know exactly how many kms.

but so far so good for what i want / need. and considering the size of the bike and it’s grip / seat warmers :blink: :blush:

:laugh:

:woohoo:

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