Burning a rear tire..
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Burning a rear tire..
I used to burn up rear tires on my old 4 cylinder Yamaha and it never seemed to hurt it. But, as I get older it seems like a needless thing to do. My question is, does it hurt your bike to take it to the burnout pit and burn up a rear tire?
The old Harleys look like they are working hard doing that. I have never burned a tire up in the pit with any Harley and don't intend to.
The old Harleys look like they are working hard doing that. I have never burned a tire up in the pit with any Harley and don't intend to.
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Doing things like burnouts is hard duty for a bike. You aren't just burning up a tire, you are burning up quite a few of the "load cycles" of your bike's life. Many, many more than you would if you spent the same amount of time in ordinary riding.
When you say "I used to burn up rear tires on my old 4 cylinder Yamaha and it never seemed to hurt it", you are wrong. It very much hurt it. Just not to the point of immediate failure. But make no mistake, you used up a lot of load cycles and therefore took a lot of life off of the bike.
Your bike only has so many load cycles in it. Use them as you wish.
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