I used scrubs religiously on my old bikes. I'd always swing by Jenny's marquee and nab her tyres. Ragged to hell but you'd get a decent amount of road mileage out of them. £50 a set usually. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
So, is there an unwritten rule as to what to get/avoid? And why if there good enough for my road bike is someone else getting shot?
They only buy them for racing/practice and throw a new set on every time. It's to do with heat cycles and that blue mark on the tyres. Basically, no good for people better (faster) than us mere mortals but we wouldn't know the difference. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Used scrubs for as long as I've had sportsbikes. 30 miles or so of smooth but quick riding, getting the tyres leant over will clean them up no end and then you can just get a bit faster and faster as per your liking. My Mutley is the first bike in 7 years I've actually bought a new tyre for! And that was a front... I do however have a pair of SuperCorsa scrubs just waiting to abuse.
If you get scrubs cheapish well worth it. They'll mostly be worn on the edges, which you'll use a lot less of on the road. People (especially on TDs) talk endless BS about heat cycles. Any road based tyre can handle hundreds of cycles, they're designed for it.
Depends which circuit they were scrubbed in on and how many laps,lots of fast right handers=tyres worn on the right uneven basically,but we are not likely to notice too much I had some and they were fine just need to get the rough chicken strips off and some scrubs do like 5 laps or something daft so proper bargains about
