What kind of longevity are you getting with your Bridgestone RE050As?

spearfish25

I'm on target just as you are. One more summer and then new rubber at the start of the following summer. Boy-racer...LOL. I'm 29 and perhaps was a bit energetic when I got the car. Never smoked the tires or purposely spun them...just enjoyed some acceleration every now and then. Two track days including today .

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kannibul

I'm assuming you're referring to new tires that have some break-in time, since new tires are SLICK when brand new.

As a biker, new tires are like riding on slightly oily tires for the first 50-100 miles - gotta take it easy on the turns and stuff...

spearfish25

I've read this very fact you state above. However, as a rebuttal:

My buddy has a Mazda Speed 6 with AWD and we did our final track day of the season yesterday. The morning was bitterly cold with rain and the track was more of an ice-skating rink (slippery, not icy). I was struggling to accelerate out of corners and kept losing the back end if I was too energetic. My buddy in the AWD Speed 6 had brand spanking new tires and was driving away from everyone on the track. Coming out of a turn, he could put all the power down without much slip at all. Vettes were hitting guard-rails and he was laughing as he lapped Mustang GTs. Now granted there is a big AWD factor here, but if the tires were truly oily and slick when new, I'd think he'd have had bigger issues up front.

I guess if I had new tires too, I'd have seen how much of a problem new tires really were .

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bullitt5897

All tires brand new are slick but after about 50 miles they are good to go. Did ur buddy drive to the track? If so there is ur 50 miles. The reason they are slick is that the manufacturers apply a special coating over the tires for transportation and to keep them from degrading while on the shelf in a warehouse

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Mergnthwirker

Actually, I think it is mould-release compound. When the tread is formed in a mould, they spray a compound into the mould first that helps them separate the tire from the mould after the tread is formed. The compound stays on the tread until it wears off 50-70 miles of driving. There may also be a preservative used, but I think it is the mould release that is slippery at first -- especially if you drive new tires on wet roads.

Just my $.02