Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

TO MOUSSE OR NOT TO MOUSSE

Your tyres are really important when it comes to how your motorcycle handles. The tyres need to grip the surface so that the motorcycle can drive forward and also steer. If the rear tyre does not grip it will not propel the motorcycle in a forward direction and if the front tyre is slipping and sliding then the motorcycle will not steer. There are all kinds of rubber compounds and knob configurations designed to get the most traction on all different kinds of terrain.

This however is not a tyre feature, instead we are going to talk about what fills the inside of a tyre. A tyre needs internal pressure from within to keep its structure. If it does not have this internal pressure then the shape of the tyre will be compromised and the tyre will collapse and move around all over the rim giving us very little traction if any at all. To rectify this problem we insert a tube inside the tyre made

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