Huck Fonda
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OK, I'm not all Mr. Sporty Bike or anything, but since I heard the term "Chicken Strips", I've been mindful of what my tires look like.
For the few that may not know, "Chicken Strips" refers to the unused edges of your tires, the implication that the larger (wider) they are, the more chicken you are to get your bike bent over.
There are the typical "square" tires on bikes used mostly for straight ahead riding or smokey burnouts. These usually have a rather large order of chicken strips, but then there are the tires you see that almost appear triangular. The edges are warn all the way and then some. A nicely feathered edge is either the sign of someone riding the corners pretty hard, or a poser squid who thinks it's cool to install race take-offs.
Since the FJR lives in both worlds of sport and touring, I'm just curious how the general population measures up.
Here's how mine are looking on my Avon Storms (round 2) after about 1.7k of commuting miles. Measured from the edge of the useable tread to about 1/2 way through the "border zone" between fresh rubber and scuffed.
F - 22 mm
R - 10mm
For the few that may not know, "Chicken Strips" refers to the unused edges of your tires, the implication that the larger (wider) they are, the more chicken you are to get your bike bent over.
There are the typical "square" tires on bikes used mostly for straight ahead riding or smokey burnouts. These usually have a rather large order of chicken strips, but then there are the tires you see that almost appear triangular. The edges are warn all the way and then some. A nicely feathered edge is either the sign of someone riding the corners pretty hard, or a poser squid who thinks it's cool to install race take-offs.
Since the FJR lives in both worlds of sport and touring, I'm just curious how the general population measures up.
Here's how mine are looking on my Avon Storms (round 2) after about 1.7k of commuting miles. Measured from the edge of the useable tread to about 1/2 way through the "border zone" between fresh rubber and scuffed.
F - 22 mm
R - 10mm
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