Pedrosa's front tire - Japan GP
 

Say what you want about the midget, the fucker is good. I would not ride to the grocery store with this shit, much less finish a moto gp race 3rd.

Yeah but that fucker only weighs 100lbs. No stress on that tire.

Fuck those apples...Big Balls Right there.

that fucker needs SPACE SHIPS to carry his fucking balls around in.

I wonder if he caught a curb? One of the 250 guys did and flattened his tire.

I'm surprised theres so much rubber left on the tire. How do we know thats his tire from the end of the race?

Ballsy midget.

ballsy? uh... hard to say... I'm sure he knew something was wrong with the tire... but doubt he knew THAT was what was wrong...

skillful? no doubt... obviously he's gotta have a bit of skill to ride MotoGP... but to finish 3rd on that tire...

I'd say much more skill than balls...


and I still can't stand the little fucker

Perfect.

If he'd gotten on the bike with the tire looking like that to race, that'd take balls.

BTW he overheated the tire causing it to come apart, that's what causes those bubbles.

Isn't that normally a rear tire problem?

Probably for most riders, but it's a heat problem, so it'll depend mostly on how hot you get both tires. He obviously roasted the front tire during the race.

At least it's in the middle/meat of the tire. If it were about 2/3 out he wouldn't be able to trailbrake into right turns or if it were on the edge his cornering would be effed.

Um, motorcycle tires don't bubble when they get over heated. They turn blue and get hard and greasy. Besides, the part of the tire that's chunked is not where you traditionally build up a lot of heat. I think what you're calling "bubbles" are actually little bits of discarded rubber from the tires called "marbles".

Love him or hate him, Pedrobot can ride the piss out of that bike...

Are you blind, those aren't marbles there's chunks of rubber missing!
Tires bubble then they are overheated and start to out gas causing the rubber to delaminate from the casing. This is a common problem with racing tires that are severely overheated.