A little help here....... please.

[RustyAs]

Currently in Burnie Tas, half way through a 10 day tour and late this afternoon while lubing the chain i discovered these marks on the rear tyre.
It appears to be part of the manufacturing process as you can see by the rounded edges of the groove, and the fact that it goes completly around the tyre, with the same mark in each tread.
Have not been doing any burn outs or been on dirt roads, only highway riding. Which by the way in Tasmania is fantastic in a lot of areas.

My main concern is the tyre may be de-laminating.

any one seen this before

Cheers

Rusty

Close up

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Groove in centre goes all the way around

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Other crack

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Plug?

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[kawadave]

Are they Bridgestone Battlax's ?

[dilligaf]

if they are bridgestone bt023 its an anti static strip. mine have done it.

[RustyAs]

Ahhh..... yes that may help

It's a Bridgestone Battlax BT023R180/55ZR17M

[kawadave]

Mine have done the same.....nothing to worry about.

[dilligaf]

from memory I've put over 7000k on mine since they appeared so don't worry.

[RustyAs]

Cheers,

Thanks heaps. For what it is worth the Bridgstones are performing brilliantly. Using all the tyre in the hard and fast twisty stuff as well as the high speed tight corners.

The roads here in Tas are great, even the secondary roads.

Will do a trip report when I get back late next week.

Cheers

Rusty

[ducati_paul]

Just watch out for those logging trucks, they use both sides of the road at speed on bends and don't care what's coming the other way

[Six Addict]

top stuff rusty!!!! will read the report for sure

[Smitty]

............

The roads here in Tas are great, even the secondary roads.

Will do a trip report when I get back late next week.

Cheers

Rusty

just watch for the roadkill
running over a dead wombat or wallaby will ruin your day

[Gosling1]

.....just watch for the roadkill.....running over a dead wombat or wallaby will ruin your day ......

pretty sure it fucked the wombats day as well !

[StuMiller]

Hey mate, when are you due in Hobart?

[RustyAs]

sorry Stu, missed you

been back for a week now

Been up to my arm pit s in aligators at work since I got bacK

Had a fantastic trip. Tassie is a riders paradise. Definatley will be going back.

Stay tuned fo a full report over the week end, similar to my ride last year http://www.ksrc-au.com/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 49&t=30663 it will take some time to put together.

Cheers