Revision question · Safety and your motorcycle

How should you ride a motorcycle when new tyres have just been fitted?

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Slower-than-normal, until the shiny surface is worn off

By braking hard, especially into bends

Normally, but with higher tyre pressures

By riding at faster-than-normal speeds

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Slower-than-normal, until the shiny surface is worn offThis was the right answer

Ride gently and cautiously while becoming familiar with new tyres. Avoid hard acceleration, abrupt braking and extreme lean angles, especially on wet roads. Follow the tyre manufacturer’s running-in instructions. The archive’s reference to losing a shiny surface is not a reliable test that full grip has been reached.

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Run in new tyres gentlyReviewed guidance summary · The gentle-riding answer is preserved; the explanation does not promise that disappearance of shine is a universal grip test.

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