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As a bike leans, the tires' contact patches move farther to the side causing wear. The portions at either edge of a motorcycle tire that remain unworn by leaning into turns is sometimes referred to as chicken strips. The finite width of the tires alters the actual lean angle of the rear frame from the ideal lean angle described above.
A motorcycle tyre (spelt tire in American English) is the outer part of motorcycle wheel, attached to the rim, providing traction, resisting wear, absorbing surface irregularities, and allowing the motorcycle to turn via countersteering.
New Mail Ladies Safety bicycle, circa 1891, with solid rubber tires A tubed, clincher tire showing the inner tube protruding between the tire and the rim Tubular tire rolled from rim to show glue between them Clincher cross section schematic with 1: rim, 2: rim strip, 3: rim braking surface, 4: bead core, 5: inner tube, 6: casing, 7: tread
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Production bicycle tires at 120 psi (8.3 bar) and 50 km/h (31 mph), measured on rollers 0.0050: Dirty tram rails (standard) with straights and curves [citation needed] 0.0045 to 0.0080 [29] Large truck tires 0.0055 [23] Typical BMX bicycle tires used for solar cars 0.0065 [30] EU passenger car tyre label fuel efficiency class A (upper limit)
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Bluefield Retread Company in Bluefield, West Virginia. Retread (also known as recap or remold) is a re-manufacturing process for tires that replace the tread on worn tires. [1] [2] Retreading is applied to casings of spent tires that have been inspected and repaired. [3]