What is the Best Way to Get Rid of Chicken Strip?

What is Chicken Strip, anyway?

It is the 'ring at both ends of the tire that has never touched the ground since new'. It is called a "chicken strip" in some countries.

The word originated on a certain bulletin board, and it's promised to be used in a self-deprecating way as a symbol of being a lousy rider.

However, it is a symbol of poor riding skills, and there should be many riders who are wondering if there is any way to get rid of it.

It's like "the tires are whispering to me that there's more to come".

To begin with, the presence or absence of chicken strip is not proportional to good driving skills.

WebiQ is here to bring you a little satisfaction and motorcycle knowledge. I'll tell you that the thickness of the chicken strip is not the decisive difference in driving skill! (Incidentally, how to get rid of it.)

They say no one's looking at other people's tires.

I'm sure you're thinking, "Wow, there's so much unused tire at both edges!" Almost never be told, except among close friends. But in reality, they are seen a lot.

The proof of this is that you've noticed on the motorcycle park at a tourist spot that the motorcycle has an extra tire on both ends, right? If you're watching, that means others are watching too. It seems to me that the age when you are most concerned, especially when you have come out of a complete beginner and can ride that well, is the age you are most concerned about.

No matter what you do, there's always an extra tire surface at both ends.

You have to ground both ends of the tire in order to avoid creating chicken strip. motorcycle tire cross-sections are round, so you need to tilt it all the way down to ground it to both ends. However, there are vehicles that can never be grounded to the edge, no matter how hard you try to knock them down.

Is that a vehicle with extra thick, high-grip tires and sharp tires that look like they're meant to be driven on the track? No, it's not.

In fact, almost all of the motorcycles in the world are. No matter how much you bank it, it's impossible to get it to the end of the tire

Why can't we ever ground them?

Bias tires (used in American, off-road, etc.) are basically circular in cross-section and must be tilted nearly 90 degrees to reach the end of the tire.

This is especially true for tires with low flatness, which have a near-new circle cross-sectional shape, so the body bank angle is directly related to the tire's contact angle. It's obvious when you observe a family-friendly 50cc scooter, for example, that the edge of the tread is almost directly across and can never be grounded as it is.

Why is there tread to an ungrounded area? You may also be wondering why.
Each tire manufacturer will have a different view on this, and that's exactly what each manufacturer's know-how is. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact answer.

However, I can kind of imagine it. The first is that it's supposed to be able to drive on uneven terrain and other conditions where the tires are buried in the road. That's why. This is almost always the reason for off-road tires and the like. Regardless of the bank angle, the side of the tire should be very effective in catching the road surface as well as the side of the tire when going through a sloppy muddy surface.

The second is to accommodate a variety of users. Have you ever seen a moped scooter that has almost no air pressure and is running out of air pressure? To protect the side of the tire (which is structurally weak) even when used at such ultra-low air pressure, why not just let the tread go all the way around to the side from the beginning? I feel like that's the reason.

As a manufacturer, we can't condone underinflation, so I feel that there are circumstances that cannot be said publicly. It's a totally personal guess.

The third is American, for example, which may be an example of a thicker, more voluminous tire simply because of the way it looks, and the tread surface has gone around to the side.

However, those who ride in these genres don't care about chicken strip at all, so it doesn't matter how much is left over.

Supersports can never be grounded either.

High-performance radial tires with high flatness, for example, have a cross-sectional shape closer to that of a triangle, which makes it easier to ground them to the edge than a bias tire. But this time, for a completely different reason than a bias tire, both ends cannot be grounded.

Supersport high-grip tires are designed to deform under cornering, and in that deformed state, they are designed to provide maximum grip and contact area. However, this "high load" is set far beyond the level of load that can be delivered on public roads. As long as you drive on public roads, you'll never reach that kind of territory.So the tire doesn't deform ideally, so you can't ground it to the edge.

This is especially true of the front tires. Front tires, which are designed to cut left and right at the steering, by their very nature, have more tread around the edge than the rear tires, and as I wrote in the story of the bias tire, the tread has reached a point where it is absolutely impossible to make contact with the ground.
It's absolutely impossible to ground them in the first place.

A full bank won't make the chicken strip disappear.

Do you understand that no matter how much you bank the tire, it will not contact the edge? Almost all motorcycles in the world are designed to have chicken strip even when fully banked.

Therefore, it's completely useless to try to increase the angle of the bank to eliminate the chicken strip. Besides, you have to make it harder to turn the handlebars in order to get it down, and since you're wasting time, it's easier to slip down. Nothing good comes of it!

A good driver is a surplus.

The motorcycle turns best and effortlessly well when you don't interfere with the self-steer that naturally attaches to the bank angle. That's what a motorcycle is: a vehicle.

And in such a natural and easy state, you can turn a corner without taking it down too much, because you can easily get the rudder angle on a small bank angle. That's what good driving is all about, so the better you drive, the less bank angle and bank time you'll get, and the more you'll be able to make a crisp, sharp turn. It is also a way to ride without putting too much weight on the front of the motorcycle so as not to interfere with the front (steering) movement.

As a result, as you get better at driving, you'll have less bank angle than a poor driver, and you'll be more prone to chicken strip.

Good driving with an emphasis on front load to bring out the quick handling! Some people say things like, but the meaning of applying front load is not ...... because the steering is better when it's overweight, but because it's harder to turn in terms of handling, even if it's harder to turn with the front tires that were forced to turn with the increased grip of the load It means that the time is better. It's suicidal to focus on such things on public roads, so let's not do it.

How does it work on the track?

Due to the flat surface with good grip and the high level of safety, it can carry ultra-high loads that would never be possible on public roads. No matter how hard you drive on a mountain pass, you won't be far behind, and you'll never be able to reach the ultra-large loads that only a circuit can provide.

Supersport high-grip tires are designed for that kind of heavy load area, and only when the load is applied to that point do they "contact the edge correctly". Even the front tires, which are absolutely impossible to get rid of chicken strip by simply banking them, will be grounded to the edges on the track.

In other words, you can see that in order to eliminate chicken strip, it is important to overload the tire (to make it grounded to the edge). By deforming (crushing or denting) the tire under load, you can get the tire to the edge of the ground.

But the fast ones you see in the passes are grounded to the edge, right?

You are simply doing something reckless at a dangerous speed.If the tire is driven at high speed on a narrow mountain road and banked to the max, it will be able to reach the ground to the edge of the road without the high load of circuit driving because of its high flatness by nature. However, the speed at that time would be completely out of control.

No, I'm going to go up the mountain with the load on and deform the tires, crushing and denting them! Some of you might say. In fact, I was such a handful, too.

That may be true, but the grip of the road surface is completely different on a track than on a mountain pass. It is far from the load required by the tire, such as the load on a mountain pass. It's a very low-level story.You should be aware what you are doing.

Loading a tire to the point of deforming it on a mountain road is not a good idea. It's kind of a juggling act.If you understand that there is always the possibility of a big fall at any given moment, that a fall will cause a lot of trouble for other traffic, and that there is no escape zone, so it's a direct threat to your life, you will never think "I'm good at this, so I'm okay".

One way or another. You're simply driving recklessly.So don't refer to the driving of such people.

But I'd like to get rid of the chicken strip somehow.

I know exactly how you feel. Because that's what I did too!

What happens when you file?

This is the way you see it all over the Internet. I'm ashamed to admit that I've done this before. I've even pushed a metal file against a tire with the engine operating and spinning the tire, not to mention hand filing.

Needless to say, that doesn't make the AMARING disappear. The "ring of filing marks" was perfectly visible and did not satisfy my vanity.

I've seen the theory that it is effective for peeling, but peeling with a file is nonsense! If you don't ground it, you don't need to peel it, and if you do, it can be peeled by itself.

As I was writing this, I was thinking of naming the "ring of marks" created by trying to get rid chicken strip as a "sanding ring".

What happens when you let the air out?

This is another method that can be found on the Internet. By reducing the air pressure, the tire is deformed more easily, so that it is grounded to the edge of the tread despite the low load. The theory that it's okay to lower the air pressure to about 2.0 kPa seems to be a common theory.

Absolutely not!

It's the worst, the worst, the best, the most foolish thing to do is to abandon the tire's original performance in favor of "leaving a mark on the ground to the edge". Filing is still better.

So what should I do?

You can't get rid of it without doing something stupid!

• Release the air pressure
• Reckless Speed
• Reckless banking angle
• Crazy high load

 It's all an act of great stupidity. There's no point in doing that to get rid of the chicken strip! 

But for those of you who really want to get rid of it, I've got a few secrets of my own.

Tire pressure is absolutely the right pressure. Lower the pressure to the limit and you'll easily get grounded to the edge, but what fun is driving with a flat tire! And since full-banked high-speed corners do not exist in the city, the only thing left to do is to overload the tires somehow.

The trick to overloading the tires is to be aware of the need to take small corners and intersections, not big, fast ones, and to make a quick turn. If you open the throttle wide after a slam and finish the turn immediately while overloading the rear tire, you'll have a significant instantaneous load and bank angle, which will allow you to reach the edge of the corner little by little.

Repeat this on a daily basis, and alas, wonder! Before you know it, the chicken strip has disappeared. Even if it doesn't disappear, it should be significantly reduced in width, and you won't be embarrassed to show your chicken strip in public.

What's more, this method is so packed with the basics of good motorcycle driving that you can become a better driver simply by consciously executing it while commuting to and from work in the city.

If you're aiming for the opposite of "reckless and fast," "lean and good," and you have the ambition to do something about AMARING, I recommend it!