Diagnosis needed!!!

[bean]

Do I demonstrate a good attention to detail?

Am I bored?

Do I have OCD?

Or........like my wife suggested, am I just mad?

Before

After

Process :shock:

I don't really use a razor (that was just for visual effect!), i just pick them off with my fingers.
Interestingly, there is a lot less road noise now when I'm riding.
Does anyone else (apart from maybe RatRod :wink do stuff like this?

 

[KOTA]

I guess it's better then picking your nose.....Do you "flick" the little boogers after you pull them off?

 

[blink]

actually, after a good couple skid stops, those things would be gone.
thats how i would do it.

 

[user 135]

I have done that. Some tires are worse than others=Cheap. Skidding doesn't always get them off

 

[brentville]

I've got a very tight fit with wider tires and narrow fenders. I have had to stretch and pull the fenders to keep the tires from rubbing. The only thing that rubs now is those darn nubbies! Hand me the razor!

 

[sensor]

yeah ive done that before :roll:
when i got some black tires for my dayton they rubbed the rear stays and fork and the noise drove me crazy so out came the razor blade and tweezers

 

[Anonymous]

I'd use nail clippers.

 

[roadmaster]

:shock: just did that to a new set of tires on my westport last night (irony). the rubber "thingies" sticking out would hit my close tolerance fender brackets, so i did mine with a pair of fingernail clippers devoted just for such obsessiveness. if they wouldnt have been rubbing the fender braces and making noise, i woulda probably left them on.

 

[Slick Rick]

I usually wear those things off of the tread pretty quick by riding,but I have plucked my fair share of them from a sidewall for sure! :mrgreen:

 

[B607]

I asked an old tire builder that worked at the now closed Firestone tire plant near here what those little nubs are for. He said the mold has lots of little holes and when they put in the rubber there is a vacuum placed on the holes from outside the mold. This gets any air that is in the rubber out before it cures and the holes eventually fill with rubber. I'd worry if I bought tires and they didn't have any nubs. B607

 

[xddorox]

I have done that but I will deny it if anybody calls it on me outside of this place.

 

[GodHatesCleveland]

actually, after a good couple skid stops, those things would be gone.
thats how i would do it.

Skid stops would be the most fun way to get rid of them (looks at bikes for nubby tires...)