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Stefan hasn't taken his to the barber yet as per instructions. They result from hot rubber squeezing through the air holes in the mold as it's forced in. They wear off after a couple of hundred kilometres.
Thanks for the compliments on the scooter. I will drop the scooter off at Roberto's garage on wednesday to get the stripped thread reworked. She'll be up running saturday again I hope.
The 'hair' is from the actual manuacturing process of the tyre: the 'green' tyre (not vulcanised) does not have any tread or sidewall marking. It is plain black The preassembled tyre is placed into a steam heated steel mould that bakes/vulcanises the rubber under heat, pressure and time. As the 'green' rubber (Imagine it like chewing gum) starts to warm up it starts to flow into the tread pattern formed by the steel vulcanising mould. To allow the trapped air to escape there are many small venting holes in the mould. The hairy stuff is rubber that went into the venting holes and then vulcanised.
Some manufactures cut them off before they ship, Michelling didn't in this case.
David..why do all new wheels have these hairy protrusions..what do they do?
Love the hairy wheel. The colour is fab too.