Gyrobob
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With new tires I like to clean the tread surface with a strong cleaner as Vers suggested. Then the fun part,... scrape them off by going out to a concrete parking lot with no one there, and ride around in circles in second gear, leaning over gradually further and further until things start scraping. A few minutes of this turning left followed by a few minutes of turning right will usually wear off the crap the manufacturer left on the surface. It's cool to see the faint black lines the tires leave on the pavement. If you are smooth and consistent, after a while you'll have a black circle on the concrete.
This kind of exercise is usually a good one for self-training anyway. It gets you reacquainted with your max lean angle,.. a good thing to know in sporty or accident-avoidance situations.
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