How it's made - Shinko Motorcycle Tires

[Serk]

I found this fascinating. The process of making a motorcycle tire, at least as Shinko does it, is a lot more labor intensive and hands on than I imagined it would be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvD2NMyNP4

[Whooray]

That is quite the process... 

[nogrey]

Wow! Fascinating!

[..]

You made me go look.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCgYPgOECrM

[Serk]

You made me go look.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCgYPgOECrM

And Michelin (Although this one is for a darkside motorcycle tires it appears... )

https://youtu.be/WDaeTLZSHVg

[Hooter]

  Good video, thanks for sharing.  You'd need 2 sets of ear plugs to work there.

[carolinarider09]

I was surprised to see them toss all that stuff in this plastic bags and everything else into a "pot".

Very interesting.

https://youtu.be/krD4hdGvGHM

[Serk]

I was surprised to see them toss all that stuff in this plastic bags and everything else into a "pot".

I noted that as well..... Guess the small amount of "Not what we want in there" isn't enough to make a difference...

...or it does make a difference, and that's why so many people think so poorly of Shinko...

[Valkorado]

That was cool!  66°, was just burning some rubber off Ruby's front Shinko.  I don't have any reason to think poorly of Shinkos as of yet (knocking on wood). 

[Robert]

I was surprised to see them toss all that stuff in this plastic bags and everything else into a "pot".

Very interesting.

https://youtu.be/krD4hdGvGHM

That really interested me also and I thought Shinko was the only one doing it. I have never seen a car tire being made and they did that but I took a look at Michelin and they do it also. That surprised me

[cookiedough]

the last part was cool where it compresses all that wide rubber down to form in that machine the cycle tire.

[..]

That was cool!  66°, was just burning some rubber off Ruby's front Shinko.  I don't have any reason to think poorly of Shinkos as of yet (knocking on wood). 

I'm about to replace a Shinko 777 on the front of my 2014 Valkyrie.

ONLY 5,000 miles!!!

On my 98's at least 10/11 thousand miles on a Shinko.

[John Schmidt]

I just installed a new Shinko front tire on the trike in preparation for a trip west in June. Although the same "size" as the Metzeler it replaced, it appears smaller, doesn't fill the fender nearly as much. It will get a few thousand miles this summer so will be interested to see how it performs. As for the Metz it replaced, it had nearly 17k miles and if I wasn't planning a long trip I wouldn't have changed it.

PS: I only use balance beads, no wheel weights. Makes a difference I've found.

[Grandpot]

To those boys, OSHA in just a town in Wisconsin.

[Serk]

To those boys, OSHA in just a town in Wisconsin.