advice needed on retreaded tyres

[contail]

im looking at getting a rear 190.50.17 (sports) tomohawk retread tyre.
i havnt been able to find any one who has heard of these tyres or recomends retreads. so can any of you shed some light on these like are they safe and handle ok etc.
cheers
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[Kylie]

I wouldnt touch a retread even on a car.

Personal opinion tho

[odie]

Heard of them a while ago (3 years)
They had a gimmick, coloured tyres, red, green etc.
Still wouldnt use them myself, re-treads, not a good idea, ok on trucks and bus's, but how fast do they go and how often do you see bits of truck tyre lying at the side of the motorway!

[Shifty]

Very bad idea - because of the vastly different loads and stresses a bike tyre experiences compared to a car tyre, bike tyres really aren't suitable for retreading. worst case scenario is your tread can come away from the carcass, and I'm sure you can imagine the consequences of that happening. Worth saving a few quid? Not a good trade-off in my opinion

[deegee]

Funnily enough most aircraft tyres are remolds, allthough they dont do alot of miles (on the ground anyway) they do have to do very hard work as many tonnes of aircraft land on them. We've all seen film of them, as the aircraft lands the tyres go from nought to 100 + mph in a fraction of a second making a chirping noise and making a cloud of rubber.

[Shifty]

Saw those tomahawk things reviewed in a mag when they came out the other year - they reckoned they were only fit for stunting - not long term use

[johnr]

ive a fairly open mind on retreads. ive seen some come delaminated on cars and trucks, but lets face it, truck tyres live a hard life, and the big problem i can see with retreads is when they get some age under them. ive seen cars with tyres on them that have lasted 30 odd thousand miles over many years. but on a sportsbike, how many of us have a single tyre on for more than 12 months?
never seen any real evidence to make me for or against them on a bike. they seem pretty low priced, so are i supose better than running a tyre bald cos youy cant afford a new one, and theyre reasonably green as they are re-using old tyre carcasses.
yer pays yer money etc

[contail]

ok thanks every one for your information regarding the tyres.
i will give them a miss for now. looks like im buying a new one. just wont be able to afford to ride back from shop lol.

cheers
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[shedman]

im looking at getting a rear 190.50.17 (sports) tomohawk retread tyre.
i havnt been able to find any one who has heard of these tyres or recomends retreads. so can any of you shed some light on these like are they safe and handle ok etc.
cheers
contail


please sell you soul to santa befor getting one of these
IN LESS THAN 100 miles :eek:
i will never again use a retread again front tyre on my van blow out at 50 with my mates trike on the trailer ! luck was on my side in the way of it was two lanes and clear or i have no i dear wot would of happend.

ps all me mates told me not to buy it !!!!!! not cheap if it costs a life, van ,trike or bike

[Kylie]

but on a sportsbike, how many of us have a single tyre on for more than 12 months?

I know the GSX doesnt entirely class as a sports bike, but I have had the same front tyre for 3.5 years and the rear tyre was changed in January.... thats since I've had the bike, no idea how long they'd been on before but I'd hazard a guess at at least a year....

[Blurt]

I usually need a new rear every 3 month's and a front maybe 6 month's... thats on a 600 hornet :eek:

[Kylie]

I usually need a new rear every 3 month's and a front maybe 6 month's... thats on a 600 hornet :eek:
You clearly do more miles than me!!!!!

I apparently have about 1000 miles left on the front..... and I might get to do those 1000 miles once i've got the bike fixed... got a brand new rear tyre though :D

[contail]

You clearly do more miles than me!!!!!

I apparently have about 1000 miles left on the front..... and I might get to do those 1000 miles once i've got the bike fixed... got a brand new rear tyre though :D

hmm. yes maybe.
live in e sussex. work in brum. 340 miles round trip 3 times a month. plus a 30 mile round trip when im at work and lodging at mates house. not to mention travelling around to catch up with friends and family.
i get about 7/8oo miles out of the rear. but i do usualy have the sticky stuff as i ride my gsxr11 hardtail like a gsxr1100 stock. but obviously i guess theres a bit of spinning on the back. dont usualy have a problem getting tyres etc but the last couple of months have been expensive. so im on a big bad budget as country lanes and concrete motorways have taken there toll on the bike. :(

[Kylie]

a bit of spare time. just fitted new rear tyre £160 got up at five hopped on zzr1100 head for chester and off to glasgow turn left run out of road get on ferry stop at babz for a cuppa. off to oban for a samon sandwich smoked over wisky barrels stuff a bottel of oban wiskey in tank bag back to dunoon
kip get up go home get home £90+ :eek:petrol and two tyres back one bald front just onthe edge of ponits :eek: that took a few weeks to get over but no ponits
at one point of the run i looked at speedo and had a panic attak when i tryed to work out how long i would be looking out of a funny window for , as phone boxes were afew to many a min cheap tyres could not have done this !!
two yrs of fun no points man said when i paid for it i have a new frame in the shed when you need it ha ha RIP my zzr sold to a mate and killed by the mot inspectors son bringing it back from mot
Can someone translate that for me?!

[rob]

i've had two tommohawk fronts delaminate on my bikes, the first one the tread came away from the carcass in big areas like half grapefruits, the second one had only done about 40 miles when it blistered up, like half walnuts all round it. made for an interesting 40 mile return trip to put the old nearly bald one back on! :eek: both replaced free of charge by tommohawk though. their excuse (!!!) was that the operator had had chips in his lunch break and got grease into the machine!! :rolleyes: i know of several other people who have had them delaminate, (fronts and rears), they've all been replaced, but thats not the point, is it.........

[John Hopkins]

Even tyre dealers don't like to sell remoulds for cars or bikes...although they are a big seller for lorry's..however a lorry may use them as a double wheel, if one goes they don't lose so much control...only a nutter would risk their lives riding a motorbike...think how mad you would have to be to ride a motorbike with remoulds...And recuts are just a way of cutting the groove deeper in an old smooth tyre...very dangerous...and used to be illegal in this country... :eek: :D John

[saxman]

Can someone translate that for me?!
not me.... :confused:

[ratwing]

I bought Colway remoulds for the back of the trike, have used remoulds on a RangeRover and a Fiesta without problems and and might well have considered remoulds for the bikes until reading this thread - theres quite a few car remould companies but it looks like only one (?) that does bikes and they appear to have quality issues :eek: so they won't be going on mine either!

[Dusty]

Heard of them a while ago (3 years)
They had a gimmick, coloured tyres, red, green etc.
Still wouldnt use them myself, re-treads, not a good idea, ok on trucks and bus's, but how fast do they go and how often do you see bits of truck tyre lying at the side of the motorway!

Actually, As discovered in a survey by the big manufacturers,most of the shredded lorry tyres you see on the road are new tyres not retreads. :p

Wouldn't touch a retread on a bike if me life depended on it.