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So I'm thinking about giving up my garage space at my apartment to save some money over the summer. The question is, will normal summer temperature swings 50's at night to ~100 during the day reduce the lifespan of my race takeoff tires? My concern is that the high temperatures might work like a heat cycle on the tires and reduce their stickiness without me getting the benefit from riding them. Any thoughts about the validity of this idea? Or am I completely wrong?

Thanks,
Greg

It takes much more heat than that to heat cycle tires. I'd be more worried about UV damage, but keep them out of the sun when possible and you should be OK. As OK as race tires on the street will ever be, anyways.

They will at least be covered in a carport type thing, just not temperature controlled. As far as race tires on the street, I'm ok with them... I'm comfortable with the rate they lose grip and they are the right price. I'll start buying street tires when you can get a decent set for less than $200, which is enough for me to buy two sets of takeoffs and get them mounted.

Yeah they'll be fine. Heat cycles mean taking them up to over 200 degrees and back down to ambient temperatures. Even in Phoenix with those that ran race take-offs, they'd wear out well before they got overly heat cycled.

Where are you at if it's doing 50-100? I'm guessing near the deserts of the southwest but not actually in them?

I'm in Denver... Technically it is a desert...

Well shoot I wish you would have told me sooner man... I'd have come up and helped you check your valves. I'm only down in the Springs.

pilot_greg wrote:I'm in Denver... Technically it is a desert...

I have never seen REAL triple digit temps on the front range.

I just lived for 2 years in Yuma, AZ, you wanna talk desert hehe.

Its also been really wet this year on the front range.

but yeah going from 50-90 in one day is fairly commonplace in these parts.

Im still pretty conditioned to the heat in AZ, we had one day a few weeks ago where it hit like 95 here and I thought it was in the low 80s lol, Im soo used to 110+

Wrider wrote:Well shoot I wish you would have told me sooner man... I'd have come up and helped you check your valves. I'm only down in the Springs.

I'll call you when I'm getting ready to paint it then .

jmillheiser wrote:

pilot_greg wrote:I'm in Denver... Technically it is a desert...

I have never seen REAL triple digit temps on the front range.

I just lived for 2 years in Yuma, AZ, you wanna talk desert hehe.

Its also been really wet this year on the front range.

but yeah going from 50-90 in one day is fairly commonplace in these parts.

Im still pretty conditioned to the heat in AZ, we had one day a few weeks ago where it hit like 95 here and I thought it was in the low 80s lol, Im soo used to 110+

This isn't wet... just wait until we get out of the drought and we get a big, day-long rainstorm the rivers overflow their banks by 15ft

pilot_greg wrote: This isn't wet... just wait until we get out of the drought and we get a big, day-long rainstorm the rivers overflow their banks by 15ft

Thats already happening in some parts of wyoming. Parts of Laramie are flooded, as are quite a few of the wyoming towns at the base of the mountains, huge amounts of runoff this year followed by a very wet spring.