Bikers warned of tyre ‘squaring’ dangers
As National Motorcycle Week kicks off riders are being warned of the dangers that continuous upright riding on fast straight routes can do to their bikes’ tyres. Long journeys on motorways can cause the meeting of the tyre’s sidewall and tread to ‘square-off’, which gives a feeling of loss of grip when the bike is used on winding roads. Often on long journeys motorcyclists switch from the motorway to fast A- and B-roads, without knowing their bikes’ handling is compromised. Gary Hartshorne, motorcycle tyre technical specialist for TyreSafe, says the squaring-off phenomenon will always