looking for opinions advice on scrubbing new tires

- rode in the first set on my new 6 without prob (had good weather for ages) but found two sodding screws in my tire on weds (1k miles - gotta love it). got a new dunlop 208 for the back and planned on being careful -2nd ride on way to work pulled away from lights onto slight bend to left with lowish power and back end stepped and spat me off (tarmac was like a blummin skid pan). Thank god for bobbins - just a bent gear lever, a crack in the tail and some grazing along the nearside tail edge. thing is, went for a good 40mile run last night to try and get some grip going but two probs - one its still doing the light rain thing so the roads are at their most greasy and two confidence in leaning the bike whilst i know my back tire is shady is at an all time low. my riding is prob just going to sort the centre of the tread at this rate

have any of you lot resorted to going at the tyre with wire wool or something to get the shiny mould layer off? dont want to create another johnnybravo shaped dent in central and a nice dry day looks a way off. Riding through the cages in rush hour with no grip ain't floating my boat.....

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Well you can try a couple things. First you can load the front and rear tires, alternate between hard brakes and hard acceleration. The increased forces of bending the sidewalls of the tires will create extra heat which may burn off some of the release compounds. Or you can try to ride all day and slowly add some controled lean angle. Example, at the track I often start a morning with a brand new set of tires. Now I only have a few practice laps before I need to be up to speed, so you first start at say 20% lean, next lap %35 lean, next lap %50 lean, and so on.

cheers - didn't realise that the heat got ride of the layer - thought it was just abrasion. defo agree on the lean method for the dry - wet and greasy roads round central made me feel like 5% lean was a risk after that spill :shock:

went to the bike show at ali pali this weekend. spoke to some of the guys floggin tires who reckoned you should only do the miles to scrub in. Then spoke to the IAM (advanced training school type bods) - he said in the winter doing road-only miles, he always got a rough gage sand paper and worked off the tyre surface. have had some dry weather this weekend so put over a hundred miles on 'em so feeling fairly grippy again.

went riding with my bud on his new 748 with tag pipes - oh my god, what a noise.......made my scorpion sound like a pee-shooter........