well I know it is dangerous and illegal already but I also know of other people who have ridden with tires in way way worse condition then mine and came out unscathed. so basically I would like to kno how long i have on it untill it goes, if i should stay off the highway etc. i dont have the option to tow, or pay some jackass to come to my house and change my tire for a insane fee. im used to paying 30 dollars a rim to change the tire. cant take my rim off and get a ride down to a mechanic either.
and if using a missmatched tire (different brand and tread pattern) on the rear is alright for the remainder of the season because this would be my cheapest option, and seems stupid to get brand new tires with only a few weeks left of the season
I think it is more than a little ironic that you refer to someone with the skills to re and re your rear rim (at the convenience of your own home no less) as a "jackass", yet you are actually posting this thread as a question about a tire that is thinner than you have any idea about. If you got your hands dirty, your knowledge would be compounded...among other benefits, would be knowing for yourself just how thin the tire is now up the middle. I would prefer to ride (limp home at reduced speeds and extremely conservative cornering) a tubeless tire with lots of tread left, but had picked up a nail and had gone flat, than to ride your cord-showing tire that risks ripping and tearing at parts of your bike if it flies apart. It is a violent process if the tire comes apart, and you won't be ready for it..it'll just happen.
And if you did your own work, you would know first-hand how useless this post below is to you as an answer. Probably a testosterone thing..
I usually don't replace my tires till the cords touch all the way around, but I wouldn't recommend that to anyone else.
What tire pressure do you usually run?
-Jamie M.
Well that's good, but from what I have heard you ride quite fast, and in keeping with that then, I find it hard to believe that you would even leave home with a tire that is that close to cords showing. Nevermind even cords showing, if you ride as fast as you claim, then you would know how very slippery a tire gets, once the tread blocks have been thinned down to pre-baldness. And you would also know that this process happens in less than about 50 to 70 km of hard fast riding. I have seen tires go from 1/32" tread to cords showing in less than 40 km after a bit of fast riding. If you are as fast as you claim, you would know this too and further to that, even if you want to risk the inconvenience (or worse) of a failure, why would you leave home with a tire that is so close to cords all the way around when it becomes so slippery you would be sliding all over the place at a pace that is barely above average speed limits. That doesn't sound conducive to the fun type of riding most of your posts proclaim. But..that said, I did enjoy your post about using CPVC as slide mods on your R6. I also admire your wanting to not only do your own work, but using your imagination to experiment and share your idea. I'm trying to be fair here...your giving advice, by pooh-poohing the potential risk of riding a tire with cords showing (even if inadvertently) to anyone reading and mis-interpreting risk, is negligent compared to certain other good posts you have done.
To OP, if you decide to ride that tire to the shop, I would use highways with reduced speeds and I would primarily use your front brake (hopefully you are skilled enough to not over-brake with it?) And it almost should go without saying..but...obviously avoid any aggressive acceleration at all. The trouble is, it might be fine for a 40 km trip to the shop, but we, as internet readers, and you, as someone who is not confident to do his own work or judge a risky condition or not, does not know if there is a sharp cut about to happen from road debris. It can happen only blocks from home. The reduced speeds are a no-brainer, cuz if it does fail, it is worse at speed due to centrifugal forces being greater so the ripping and tearing expand out and are close to grabbing bike parts with the scene.
And lastly, I've never been a fan of scrubs unless they were practically free and the long w/e coming up has a great wx forecast and your tire size is on backorder.
