Hi all Just joined the site as my brand new fireblade has arrived. Last Saturday started out great, bike all polished up ready to go. Decided to go for a quick spin. Got to the end of the road and binned it on the new tyres at approx 5 mph. £2500 damage and not happy to say the least. Tyres were the slippiest i have ever come across. On the bright side. I was ok apart from the tears misting my visor up.Bike now fixed before anyone could see my embarrassment. Wife knows though. Looking forward to warmer weather to try out properly. Did get straight back on it and rode to stratford upon avon . Lovely bike, lovely gearbox. Cheers ps hope the next installment about my new life with a fireblade will be better
Welcome aboard, shipmate. Sorry to hear about the off. Best crack on with the photos of the bike. They'll be baying for them.
Oh dear a certain video on you tube springs to mind. Welcome to the forum though and lets hope its all good news from now on
Give the tyres a good scrub with warm soapy water and a scouring pad, should make them less slippy. Welcome to the club.
sorry to hear that mate, I always give mine a good scrub first having read so many horror stories? welcome to the site btw
Hi n welcome Harry sorry to hear of your spill but alls good now,hope you enjoy the forum and the blade.
Nasty , certain brands are more slippery than others so its easy done. Hope you get it all sorted soon.
Welcome Harry Same thing nearly happened to me on the GSXR. New set of hoops on, Pirelli Rosso II, slight overuse from the right hand and it had a crazy tank slapper moment man. No idea how I even stayed on the thing. 5 months later I wrote it off :-( Chin up though, safe riding and get some pics up of your new pride and joy
Welcome aboard Harry and bless ya.Glad you got it sorted.Tyres are flipping shit when they're new.I've seen and heard so many people coming off where the tyres are still slippery.I've got two to get so not looking forward to it.
yp, a welcome from me too. thats kak new regarding the sideways excursion. be carefull if you hgot Dunlop qualifiers on as I reckon they aint much better when theyre scruubed in (get em off-if you can)
Christ thats the pits dude! I just had some new tyres K3s and they looked like something Rossi should be using they where like glass and still sporting a good 2"of chicken strip, but at least i kept on the sucker .
My worst nightmare... i hate new tyres.Paddock stand and a brick for back tyre,soapy water and a ruff sponge for the front... Ive also heard the horror stories.. Welcome to the forum.
My son dropped mine within an hour and 4 miles on the clock and whilst the damage was not too back I know how you felt!
Jesus.... all i can say is chin up.... the worse pain must have been telling the wife i picked my bike up 2-3 week ago and all i could think is please don't slip... that had new corsa III on .... not my choise of tyre but hey still have chicken strips on the kernel would be prod of
