Front tire chirps when coming down from wheelie

[Dvas]

Ever since changing my tires to Michelin Pilot Powers from the stock Dunlop, I get a pretty good chirp from the front tire whenever I let down a wheelie. I never used to get any of this before, so I'm kinda mesmerized. I come down pretty slowly and smoothly and still I get a chirp with no other weird feedbacks, i.e. no front end wobble, etc. I also did a 520 conversion at the same time I swapped the tires, but I don't see this as having any impact. Any ideas?

[Nas19320]

I was getting the same thing for a while with my Metzlers but in the past few days it has stopped.

[Dvas]

Originally Posted by Nas19320

I was getting the same thing for a while with my Metzlers but in the past few days it has stopped.

Hmmm, the tires are pretty well scrubbed in by now with, I think, about a 500 plus miles. Definitely, more than a few hundred. Also, I've pretty much outgrown wheeling all the time and only do it when I see some little kids giving me a thumbs up or something, so I don't do it that often. But it seems like it still happens every time.

[Boostedxt]

Thats fine.....its the wheel going slower than you are going. If you watch some videos of people holding them till the front wheel stops when they come down you will literally see it smoke and leave a mark on the pavement.

The wheel has to speed up very fast and the chirp you hear it it gripping and doing a mini burnout....sweeeeeeet.

Joe

[Dvas]

Originally Posted by Boostedxt

Thats fine.....its the wheel going slower than you are going. If you watch some videos of people holding them till the front wheel stops when they come down you will literally see it smoke and leave a mark on the pavement.

The wheel has to speed up very fast and the chirp you hear it it gripping and doing a mini burnout....sweeeeeeet.

Joe

That's what I was thinking. I guess the old Dunlops just didn't have the grip up front.

[moto]

It just that the Dunlops are a hrader tire than the Michelins. So when you set it down with the michelins they grip harder and jup to speed faster, making a little chirp.

[BadboyR6]

my dunlop chirps....hmmmm?

[Cever]

You have crickets in your tire....Return it as defective

[FarrOut]

Originally Posted by Cever

You have crickets in your tire....Return it as defective

+1, Michelin warrantee is great..I've returned my front tires many times because of those chirpy little critters...

[fjman]

Just a different compound. If you grab a handful of brakes, exactly like they tell you not to, I betcha you can make it chirp at you that way also.

Some tires squeak, some tires scream, and some just take it when you abuse them.


Not unlike women.

Though, tires usually you have to pay someone else to mount...