Skid patches

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Zero? So your tyre doesn't wear down at all regardless of your gear ratio?

Lucky guy.

Nope. Had the bike a year and the tyres are still like new. In fact I replaced the batteries in a rear light for the first time ever last week. Should I perhaps ride a bit more?

That's stupid.

*Bicycle tires for on-road use have no need of any sort of tread features; in fact, the best road tires are perfectly smooth, with no tread at all!

Unfortunately, most people assume that a smooth tire will be slippery, so this type of tire is difficult to sell to unsophisticated cyclists. Most tire makers cater to this by putting a very fine pattern on their tires, mainly for cosmetic and marketing reasons. If you examine a section of asphalt or concrete, you'll see that the texture of the road itself is much "knobbier" than the tread features of a good quality road tire. Since the tire is flexible, even a slick tire deforms as it comes into contact with the pavement, acquiring the shape of the pavement texture, only while incontact with the road.

People ask, "But don't slick tires get slippery on wet roads, or worse yet, wet metal features such as expansion joints, paint stripes, or railroad tracks?" The answer is, yes, they do. So do tires with tread. All tires are slippery in these conditions. Tread features make no improvement in this.*

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tires.html#tread

Ahh, I've been running 48 -16 for over a year and wandered why I wasn't having any problems with uneven wear. I've had a few punctures though and obviously turned the tyre at the same time.

I'm having a momnet and I can't get my head round this... pls can someone tell me ow many skid patches 52x19 will get me?

Thank you please.

I can predict your future just by examining your skid patches. Tynan says it's a con but I was right about that rash of his never properly clearing up.

About 19, which is the age when people stop skidding.

yes well, i like skidz init... as well, didn't want to do it if it was gonna end up at 1. Skip skiddin still counts as fixie skidz ed.

How do you slow down?

Can I just summarize so far....

Skid patches = win
Skid marks = lose
No grip = More grip
Rotate knuts = good

Have I missed anything?

How do you slow down?

resisting your legs a bit and figuring out what's going to happen ahead of you?

it's all fun and games, I squabble after all, scoble is spanish for squabble you know.

yes but it's so much easier to scrub speed off on hills to skip a bit as you approach... just what I find anyway. Try to avoid big skids as it's just money melting away, can be fun in the wet though.

why not? still hilarious.

I have just come off a 4 hour skid, I skidded down from Sheffield, I only had to do a 3 mile sprint to get enough speed up for the whole skid, I only stopped once for a sandwich and coffee just outside Nottingham (left my bike skidding in a circle in the car park).

Had to re-shoe a couple of times on the hoof, but I recommend Gatorskins™ for any skids longer than 5-10 miles.

^^^ Ha, was gonna say what tyres are dem, superfixieskiddingoodness

This thread is BS. I have tried 48:18 and 48:19 and I still have zero skid patches.

It is BS. You don't skid in exactly the same place every time you skid unless you are some sort of robot. If you have a good tire that is built to resist skids, you get one skid patch (the full circumference) no matter what gear ratio you ride.

This thread is BS. I have tried 48:18 and 48:19 and I still have zero skid patches.

do you skid ?

Mostly only cool handsome fit men who can skid

It is BS. You don't skid in exactly the same place every time you skid unless you are some sort of robot. If you have a good tire that is built to resist skids, you get one skid patch (the full circumference) no matter what gear ratio you ride.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKPREQVuu0&feature=g-upl

Sorry wrong thread, i was hoping to purchase some stick on 'skid patches' for my new tires so i can haz cool.

^ Would buy

And stick on front for special-cool, the kind normally reserved for cool handsome fit men.

fatoldbloke drop me a PM I have just what you're after...

perfectly rideable ^

i've put worse tyres on my bikes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKPREQVuu0&feature=g-upl

"If you have a good tire that is built to resist skids, you get one skid patch (the full circumference) no matter what gear ratio you ride."

That tyre has definite bits which have been skidded on a lot, and others which clearly haven't. It wouldn't be unreasonable to describe these as 'patches', would it? If you could be arsed to count them, there's probably nineteen.

Not sure if we're being trolled.

^^^ Feck! they look soooo authentic! can i haz 2 packs pls. fiddy dorrah?

perfectly drivable ^

i've got worse tyres on my car
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