Bagging your sticker tires

#1

I think that there’s some consensus that tires should be bagged in some way to slow the evaporation of softening agents. Starting this past winter I “bagged” my tires in standard 33gal garbage bags. Yesterday, however, I bought some 55gal garbage bags from Home Depot and found that a single bag will go over a stack of 4 tires perfectly. Much more convenient than 4 separate bags.

So my best tires are now bagged. If I had a set of fresh rain tires, they’d be bagged too. But since my rain tires are 3yrs old, whatever was going to evaporate out of them, probably has.

#2

There is definitely no reason to disagree with this method for storage. It’s been a long accepted form of longterm storage that holds as true to day as it ever did. For older tires, you can apply Formula V tire treatment…

http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/product/2648/Tire_Treatments_And_Strengtheners
http://www.soloperformance.com/Formula-V-Traction-Treatment-_p_303.html
http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productselection3.asp?Product=3340
http://www.amazon.com/Formula-V-Tire-Traction-Treatment/dp/B003FUY4BI

etc.

The method I seem to remember from GRM was to brush it on with a paint brush with the garbage bag under it - ready to be pulled around it - and then wrapped into the same bag, tied up and left over night… Done a couple of days before the event it provide life to the tire for a single event.

I’ve not used it, but it’s been around since 1982 and it’s still used by weekend racers everywhere.

#3

[quote=“kgobey” post=55616]For older tires, you can apply Formula V tire treatment…
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Or not…

9.3.9.3. Commercial tire shaving, evenly across the entire width of the tread, to any depth is allowed. Tires shall not be modified in any other way.

#4

Formula V is a modification? I never really thought of it that way - it’s more of a money saving application or treatment. I see this rule stopping us from recapping or “grooving” tires.

Whatever - it’s just $39 I can save.

#5

How does it make the tire stickier if it doesn’t modify it in some way?

Really? A rule to prevent recapping? I hope you warmed up before you stretched that far. :laugh:

#6

Not going to argue the point - because as I stated I see you point ner

However - I was regurgitating what I remember as ways to modify a tire… I also remember a conversation with Ross Fossbender years ago where he described when the SCCA and MCSCC outlawed recapped tires for racing :wink:

#7

I always bag tires. It does help. Bag one over the winter and leave another out subject to the elements, especially UV light if you want to test it. Race tires aren’t treated with chemicals like street tires are to protect against them breaking down.

Formula V is a waste of time. While it does make tires softer, it doesn’t restore the adhesive grip that makes them fast in the first place.

#8

I have my used RA1s bagged per the Ranger method in my storage shed while I have the new shaved RA1s mounted up and sitting in my climate controlled guest bedroom, haha.