Chicken Strips

[Fencer]

You folks with the fried tires, what pressures are you running? These look like seriously overheated tires.
- Mark

mine were lowered to 35 for the track

current rear showin 3mm for those who give a sh*t

Type run 41 in tires

 

[Kevin Daly]

They ain't chicken strips.They is MATURITY MARGINS!

Nahh, it's just another way of saying you have a "wide stance."

you and the wide stance... its beginning to sound like an obsession.



Since this is an NEPRT let me wax. chicken strips are as Jeff eludes to the more you get out of the saddle the less you need to lean your bike. On the contrary side, the more you lean to the outside (which is saddly all too common) the more you will need to lean the bike given the same speed. Thus the amound of chicken strip you have has a lot to do with you how you manage cornering than simply how fast you go. Other factors are tire pressure and how much weight is placed on the bike.

So... if your a fatty (sorry to all the hunky boys out there, but we know its all muscle anyway ) who rides with low pressure cause it gets you a larger tread contact patch and leans to the outside of the corner, you are most likley to be wearing your tire to the edge of the tread and also prolly braggin about how you scrape pegs. I have never scraped a peg (for me its bad form on a public road to go past 70%) and as anyone who has ridden with me can tell you i dont have a problem keeping pace.

 

[kurtfriedrich]

Who really gives a big ****???

TUP

 

[sonicspeed]

i reckon since we all measuring , let's pull out the rulers and compare lengths of our p@ckers...... :dance:

give me a few more miles and i'll let y'all know

 

[El Gordo]

Once they are down to about 3/8", I call them smart strips. And I have yet to touch a peg.

 

[Ari Rankum]

Since the FJR lives in both worlds of sport and touring, I'm just curious how the general population measures up.

I have no idea. My tires never get chicken strips because of all the careful bike prep I do with every bike and every new set of tires. My bff Bill told me in college that I would be called a GOD by motorcycling strangers from all over the world if I just did what he did. Sure enough, I'd park my bike among others, pull my helmet off and start to walk away when another rider would exclaim, "YOU ARE A GOD!"

Here's what you do:

* With every new bike, take a belt sander to the feeler on each foot peg and take off about a half-inch of metal.

* With every new set of tires, put the bike on the center stand and leave it running in 1st gear. Take a belt sander to the rear tire and scrape off the shoulders of the tire. Then sand off all the lettering with 60-grit.

Just like a tramp stamp, chicken strips are for others to spooge over.

 

[Kevin Daly]

Just like a tramp stamp, chicken strips are for others to spooge over.

...And there you have it

 

[zorkler]

man if you have to measure tires you better get a life

 

[Auburn]

I'm sure I can scrape up a pair of race take-offs that are worn all the way to da edge with the little rubber pieces still attached...

 

[kansas transit]

4mm on the fjr 0 on the peterbilt.

 

[kurtfriedrich]

man if you have to measure tires you better get a life

This is worst forum I have seen where people who have no interest in a thread feel compelled to jump in and pollute the tread with ****. If you don't like the thread, stay out of it!

Meanwhile, back to the thread for those who do care,

I entered my duc in an "Italian Concours" mostly as a trick to get in early and photograph all the cars without crowds and to talk to the owners;

https://kurtitalianconcourse.googlepages.com/

As I stood by my bike during the public part, I was amazed at how many men and women, young and old, noticed that I had zero chicken strips (tires had 4 track days on them) and made comments about it. Like it or not, it is used as a judge of how aggressive you ride.

https://kurtitalianconcourse.googlepages.com/magnet

Kurt

 

[Fencer]

(Stolen from Sully's post)

 

[FJRay]

Glad I was able to help some relive some stress. Didn't want to wait until Friday :yahoo:

 

[jwilly]

This is worst forum I have seen where people who have no interest in a thread feel compelled to jump in and pollute the tread with ****. If you don't like the thread, stay out of it!

Thats good advice, now why don't you try it!! :glare:

Who really gives a big ****???

TUP

What the hell is TUP?

According to Wikipedia:

Telephone User Part (TUP) provides conventional PSTN telephony services across the SS7 network. TUP was the first layer 4 protocol defined by the standards bodies and as such did not provision for ISDN services. It has now largely been replaced by ISUP. However, it can still be found in operational use in some parts of the world (eg China).

 

[HaulinAshe]

As I stood by my bike during the public part, I was amazed at how many men and women, young and old, noticed that I had zero chicken strips (tires had 4 track days on them) and made comments about it. Like it or not, it is used as a judge of how aggressive you ride.

You are right. Like it or not, it is much too often used as an indicator of how aggressively you ride.

PRIMARILY, by those who have no comprehension of how a stopwatch works. Very often and in most cases, the fastest rider appears to be very smooth and less "aggressive" than the slower ones. That holds true on the track and often on the street. It holds true on both dirt and asphalt. You will most often hear it expressed as "he/she makes it look so damn easy!".

My strongest suggestion would be to begin a change in perception, by being the first in your crowd to stop worshiping chicken strips (not saying that YOU do, just saying) and use the common piece of technology known as a stopwatch to determine who is making the best time down the course or around the track.

It's the same principle as telling a fisherman to use a ruler and a scale. That's how you KNOW who caught the biggest fish.



Bragging about scrubbing off chicken strips is too often fueling a young one's desire to ride wildly rather than effectively. Personally, I just hate to see it proliferated time after time.

I will now leave your thread and I promise not to interfere further, should you choose to ignore this old fart (with all the trophies on his wall). After all, the older I get, the faster I used to be!

 

[twowheelnut]

You folks with the fried tires, what pressures are you running? These look like seriously overheated tires.
- Mark

By 'folks' I ASSume you mean me too, since I included photos... That PR was run at 42 PSI.

As for the rest of this thread, I kinda am enjoying this banter! WEEEeeeeeeeee! As for having something to prove or beat my chest over? I'll take a pass on those claims as I never put any thought into the task of chicken stripless riding. I just run at about 70% of my max comfort zone and that's about it. What you see are the results of fairly tame riding. I should know... I have followed cdogman and fairlaner. Sort of.

 

[Rogue]

Is it Friday yet???

 

[Mike-H]

This is worst forum I have seen where people who have no interest in a thread feel compelled to jump in and pollute the tread with ****. If you don't like the thread, stay out of it!

Thats good advice, now why don't you try it!! :glare:

Who really gives a big ****???

TUP

What the hell is TUP?

According to Wikipedia:

Telephone User Part (TUP) provides conventional PSTN telephony services across the SS7 network. TUP was the first layer 4 protocol defined by the standards bodies and as such did not provision for ISDN services. It has now largely been replaced by ISUP. However, it can still be found in operational use in some parts of the world (eg China).

thank you partner....AF acronym finder....just FYI the young willy :grin: ....

 

[twowheelnut]

This is worst forum I have seen where people who have no interest in a thread feel compelled to jump in and pollute the tread with ****. If you don't like the thread, stay out of it!

Thats good advice, now why don't you try it!! :glare:

Who really gives a big ****???

TUP

What the hell is TUP?

According to Wikipedia:

Telephone User Part (TUP) provides conventional PSTN telephony services across the SS7 network. TUP was the first layer 4 protocol defined by the standards bodies and as such did not provision for ISDN services. It has now largely been replaced by ISUP. However, it can still be found in operational use in some parts of the world (eg China).

thank you partner....AF acronym finder....just FYI the young willy :grin: ....

TUP = Thoroughly (or Totally) Useless Post. Don't ask me how I know this.

 

[kurtfriedrich]

This is worst forum I have seen where people who have no interest in a thread feel compelled to jump in and pollute the tread with ****. If you don't like the thread, stay out of it!

Thats good advice, now why don't you try it!! :glare:

Who really gives a big ****???

TUP

What the hell is TUP?

According to Wikipedia:

Telephone User Part (TUP) provides conventional PSTN telephony services across the SS7 network. TUP was the first layer 4 protocol defined by the standards bodies and as such did not provision for ISDN services. It has now largely been replaced by ISUP. However, it can still be found in operational use in some parts of the world (eg China).

Since you believe in Wikipedia, I added the definition there;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tup