Dave Moss explains tire wear patterns

My general reply to the Internet guys trying to tune by tire wear is simple. Do you get trophies for the best tire wear? I dont give a shit what the tire looks like if it had grip and went the distance and rider was happy.

 

No, but generally, a tire that is wearing nicely is also working nicely.

 

Yeah... and somedays you can milk a really soft tire for a 7 lap sprint.

 

I took a Dave Moss class at a STT event. I have to say I think it was worth it and we didn't cover tire reading. He is very, very methodical and had a plan that slowed us down to focus on what each suspension change did. I ended up within a click or two of where TSE had me set, but I had a much better understanding of how I got there. Prior I mostly a set it and forget it kind of rider, figuring any issue was most likely caused by me. After, I am a little more comfortable changing things when I find something isn't working.

 

We're talking about different brands, but if we can't get at least two sprints out of an SC0, I'm definitely changing something (or we shouldn't be on the SC0).

 

That's a supermoto tire on a full road course I'd bet $100 tonthe AFF FUNd.

If you're gonna sm on a road course use a 250gp style tire. Sm tires are designed for low grip sandy type turns with much softer compounds.

A "hard" sm tire is still softer than a soft road race tire. At least according to my durometer.

 

Yes. My assumption was that it got too hot and shredded the tire. It was a soft compound SM tire Michelin. The pocono south east course in mainly left turns, with a double apex at the end of the straight. DOT tires wear fine on the bike. It was just the wrong tire on the wrong track.

 

im always amazed that WSBK tends to use the "standard SCO" most often for their races. they are a bit longer than 2 sprints and yet some club 1000 guys cant even get 1 sprint out of that tire.

 

Helps when you have a data on suspension guy dedicated to you

 

Dave is a good dude. The tire article is too broad to be used by real racers/techs and too specific to be used by track day hacks. This giving people just enough info to be dangerous.

My $.02