A question about motorcycle tires?

Question

I read somewhere that in order to prevent a crash on your motorcycle, you should warm up the tires. I was wondering how you go about doing this.Thank you all.

Cheers!

Answer 1

if your going to race the curves, a 10 minute ride will do it. They also make a spray on rubber that will do the same thing.

Answer 2

Wow, maybe if it's 10 or 15 degrees outside you need to warm them up just so you get a softer ride and your eyeballs don't bounce so much?

But once I warmed mine up too much and they started pulling up the asphalt until suddenly I realized I was like 4000 feet up in the air and got altitude sickness!

What if you warm them up too much and then hit patch of ice? Then what?

If it starts raining and they cool off should you bail? You know, to prevent crashing... ???

Dude, you are reading too much into things, relax, ride, and pay attention - that will prevent far less crashing....  

Answer 3

generally there are two kinds of tires.  street tires and race tires.  race tires are designed to work most effectively (be stickiest) when heated to a high temperature, like taking brisk laps around a track.  when they are not in their optimal temperature range, then they can actually perform worse than many street tires.  Also, race tires have a shorter tolerance to "heat cycles", that is the number of times a tire gets to operating temperature, and then cools down.  so you will see racers get tire warmers, that keep their tires at that operating temperature between races.

street tires on the other hand, are designed to be stickiest at a much lower temperature, that you would reach while riding normally on the street.  since people also tend to not want to throw tires away often, they have to be designed to tolerate many, many heat cycles.  usually riding for maybe 15 minutes should get your street tires into their optimum operating range.

that whole swervy tire warming motion is just a bunch of BS.

Answer 4

make sure its not wet or slick outside,and dont speed,let the tires warm up slowly.

i hear bf goodrich/goodyear has good tires,and go slow into turns

Answer 5

You just ride for a while until they warm up. Take curves gradually. Minimize lean angle,  Forget that weaving and stuff you see racers do. That stuff has no business on the street. A few miles is all it takes.  

Answer 6

Warming up your tires does not prevent crashes on a motorcycle to answer your question regardless of what answers you get up above...safe riding habits/common sense/alert riding skills and luck all play a big part in evading motorcycle accidents but even all this does not PREVENT them There is nothing manufactured/practiced or born yet that prevents motorcycle accidents.

If you have to ask this question then you are not a rpro-racer and you are not an experienced rider. Don't worry about tire warmers/lean angles/etc etc. Your stock tires put there by the manufacturers are made specifically for street riding and that is all you have to do....Ride it normally and in a safe manner and you will be fine

Answer 7

This is an old wives tale.

Don't believe everything you read.

Just take it steady for a few miles if tyres are new!

Answer 8

i use tire warmers, they're little blankets that wrap around your tire and they plug into the wall, mine are set to turn on about 30min before i get up, otherwise just ride easy for 10-15 minutes

Answer 9

It depends on a lot of factors, temp outside, tire make, etc.  Just take it easy for a few minutes and it should be fine, more in the winter, less in the summer.  On hot asphalt it would not really need to be warmed up much, if any.  advrider.com has the best info on the web, even if it is dual sport based.