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Rear tyre tread depth
- Subject: Rear tyre tread depth
- From: Jim Gillespie <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:17:12 +0100 (BST)
Leatherbiker writes:
> Does anyone in the UK have a nifty way of checking whether the back
> (and front) tyre is still legal?
I've got a tread depth gauge, I think it was a couple of quid from
Halfords.
> When I lived abroad, I learned to use different coins to check the
> depth left, but unfortunately coins aren't universal.
I would offer to measure a variety of UK coins, but I'm a bit busy
trying to move house at the moment and I doubt that I'd get around to
it any time soon!
> I have done 8,000 miles on mine and something tells me it's soon
> time for a change, though the front looks like it's got loads of
> wear left.
> I'm not even sure where to look for the actual legal specifications
> of tyre roadworthiness - is it the Highway Code?
Yes, on page 90 of my 1999 edition. "Motorcycles MUST have a
tread depth of at least 1mm across three-quarters of the breadth of
the tread and in a continuous band around the entire circumference.
Mopeds should have visible tread." Interesting about the mopeds!
So the legal limit is 1mm, but that really isn't very much and I
tend to change tyres when they're down to about 2mm. Or maybe I'm
just a spendthrift :-)
Jim
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