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Offline EYAL400

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tyre thickness
« on: December 15, 2024, 22:19:15 »
What is the thickness of the rear tyre including the grooves?
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Offline graingerblaze

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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2024, 06:47:48 »
Depends on the brand, model and style of tyre. If it’s purely a road tyre, then the tread depth will be far less than an off road oriented knobbly tyre. I’m afraid you will need to be specific to get dimensions.  :whistle:
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Offline Upt North

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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2024, 09:54:32 »
My Bridgestone A41's start off at around 8mm in tread depth, there is very little rubber after that.
It's amazing how quick the carcass will show.
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Offline Spadger2

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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2024, 21:43:36 »
For safety's sake shouldn't you be changing your tyre(s) at 1mm?
I swapped mine with 2mm left on the centre @10,000miles
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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2024, 21:57:57 »
EYAL400, why are you asking?
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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2024, 22:34:19 »
I had a flat tyre in my rear tyre, I put a worm in it and I wanted to know how thick it was.
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Offline purplebikeunicorn

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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2024, 00:44:31 »
Spadger, whilst the UK legal min is 1mm, I would never try and run a tyre below 1.6-2mm purely out of respect for the stresses tyres go through.

The car tyres get changed at 3mm, although that is partially because they're all seasons and I am aware that their snow grip ability massively drops off after that.
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Re: tyre thickness
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2024, 09:41:14 »
It's the tyres ability to clear/channel water at low tread depth that is the concern rather than any stress in the tyre carcass
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