Do Toyo Proxes RA-1 race tires need to be heat cycled?
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Do Toyo Proxes RA-1 race tires need to be heat cycled?
I was told that after you shave them, they do not need to be heat cycled like Hoosiers and Kumho's do. Is this true? If so...does anyone know why?
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According to AIM who sellls all the RA1s at Infineon, and supplies 80% of the NASA road racers in NorCal, RA1s do not benefit particularly from heat cycling. Carl
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They do not benefit as greatly from a heat cycle, because they are much more durable than a hoosier or Kumho. They are good until you hit the very hard rubber right be fore they cord. These are very economical and long lasting tires*..
*The Spec Pinata boys are starting to complain and it seems that Toyo might have had a bad batch as Rumor suggests the wear rates incresed substantially late in the year. This was not proven out during the 25 hours of Thunderhill...
YMMV,
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*The Spec Pinata boys are starting to complain and it seems that Toyo might have had a bad batch as Rumor suggests the wear rates incresed substantially late in the year. This was not proven out during the 25 hours of Thunderhill...
YMMV,
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Welllllllllllllllll...............
I still believe in heat cycling - including Toyos. Rumor has it that in many cases the shaving creates enough heat to do this, so it's kind of a two for one. I've seen a couple differenct types of shaving. One that looks like the tire was cut, or almost like it was turned on a lathe. On the other it looked like it had been run on a grinder. Either way, it seems like that would probably do the trick as far as heat cycling goes.
I still believe in heat cycling - including Toyos. Rumor has it that in many cases the shaving creates enough heat to do this, so it's kind of a two for one. I've seen a couple differenct types of shaving. One that looks like the tire was cut, or almost like it was turned on a lathe. On the other it looked like it had been run on a grinder. Either way, it seems like that would probably do the trick as far as heat cycling goes.
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I wouldn't particularly recommend putting on a brand new set of shave tires and going and running a 6 hour enduro, but you don't need to do the 2-hard-laps-then-pit routine that you do with other "race" tires. One thing to keep in mind is that the Toyo's do drop off after so many heat cycles, but I don't have much of a problem with my tires that have an 01 date stamp on them...
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