If the water is not displaced adequately you'd aquaplane.
You riding on wet roads, not on ice. farking hell.
Hey, V1, if you've got a bike, turn your tyres inside out to see what happens.
If the water is not displaced adequately you'd aquaplane.
The water is adequately displaced.So what's with the wet trails after you've rode through a puddle?
I don't recall ever a tyres contact patch being dry after riding on wet roads.
Because...Tread on a tyre is there for the same reason that you get tread on a car tyre to displace water. .
Grip is diminished when cornering due to change in shape and size of contact area and differing forces acting from different directions from when the bike is going straight ahead, as well, surely?Not necessarily completely dry.
Moving enough water to leave the surface damp is what generally happens. This is the point where a treaded tyre hasn't got enough surfacewater to shift and so becomes redundant. Due to various reasons discussed up thread, this point where a treaded tyre would start to work better than a slick is never reached on a bicycle. There is, however, a consequent diminishing of grip due to a slick tyre on a damp surface, which is why you don't corner as quick in the wet.
Yes indeed, there's always a microscopic thin layer of water left, and it's the irregularities in the road surface at that scale that penetrate it and 'key' with the deforming rubber of the tyre. And, of course, the microscopic layer of water is there under a treaded tyre just as much as a slick - but there's less rubber to key with the road surface.Not necessarily completely dry.
Moving enough water to leave the surface damp is what generally happens. This is the point where a treaded tyre hasn't got enough surfacewater to shift and so becomes redundant. Due to various reasons discussed up thread, this point where a treaded tyre would start to work better than a sllick is never reached on a bicycle. There is, however, a consequent diminishing of grip due to a slick tyre on a damp surface, which is why you don't corner as quick in the wet.
What has aquaplaning got to do with anything?No one's saying bike tyres don't get wet. They are saying that They don't aquaplane
The water is adequately displaced.
Now how about you admit that this is BS?
Because...
The tread on a bike tyre is not there for the same reasons as the tread on a car tyre.
The tread on a bike tyre is not there to displace water.
Aw, come on, this really has to be a wind-up nowI don't recall ever a tyres contact patch being dry after riding on wet roads.
Of course, but nobody is arguing those points.Grip is diminished when cornering due to change in shape and size of contact area and differing forces acting from different directions from when the bike is going straight ahead, as well, surely?
Not necessarily completely dry.
Moving enough water to leave the surface damp is what generally happens. This is the point where a treaded tyre hasn't got enough surfacewater to shift and so becomes redundant. Due to various reasons discussed up thread, this point where a treaded tyre would start to work better than a slick is never reached on a bicycle. There is, however, a consequent diminishing of grip due to a slick tyre on a damp surface, which is why you don't corner as quick in the wet.
Because it's only necessary to displace sufficient water for the tyre rubber to key with the road surface.But in order for there to be a trail after riding through a puddle then there has to be water on the contact point of the tyre?
According to some this would mean no grip?
So how can a tyre leave a trail of water on the road but still have grip if there is water between the tyre and the road which would be the trail of water left on the road?