tyres not heating up

leigh_boy · 26 Jan 2014 at 18:34

i was at brands hatch yesterday and i just could not get the tyres even slightly warm, track was wet and i was doing 1.16 on an r1 so that wasnt great but there was many more slow people out there. but the nacl end would keep sliding out at droids and the entrance of padoc hill. i have a small amout of blueing but still.. have the come to a point of useless? i got the r1 back in april and done 2k miles the tyres are 2ct's but i dont know when they wer put on the bike.

thoughts?

edd1e · 26 Jan 2014 at 19:07

leigh_boy said:
thoughts?

Go faster

Never done a track in the winter so hard for me to comment, but i thought if you're doing a decent pace you should still be getting heat in them. Was the track dry?

leigh_boy · 26 Jan 2014 at 19:19

edd1e said:
Go faster

Never done a track in the winter so hard for me to comment, but i thought if you're doing a decent pace you should still be getting heat in them. Was the track dry?

nope wet, but others wer getting warm / hot tyres on normal summer road tyres, and i laped one of them.

edd1e · 26 Jan 2014 at 19:26

What tyres are they? and how old ?

leigh_boy · 27 Jan 2014 at 08:49

mitchalin 2ct;s and not sure how old they are .. atleast 9 months

Dogbreath · 27 Jan 2014 at 09:51

What tyre pressures were you running?

leigh_boy · 27 Jan 2014 at 10:11

32 rear 34 front

Dogbreath · 27 Jan 2014 at 11:42

You could probably have dropped both of those by 3-4psi, which would have helped the tyre to warm up.

Souleh · 27 Jan 2014 at 13:53

Gonna have to face it, track temps are **** all so you wont have full grip. You can drop PSI and do short stints between tyre warmers but theyll only be losing heat as soon as you go out.

Theres a reason we dont race this time of the year.

As for michelins - Ive not used them but heard they can be a tough ould bit of rubber. Maybe need pirelli/metzelers for this time of year since theyre such soft sidewalls means the rubber will squidge and move more = more heat.