Dangerous ride with a worn out motorcycle tyre - lesson learnt!
My Mahindra Mojo had munched over 11,000km and my rear tyre had been almost completely worn out. The Mojo comes with Pirelli Diablo Rosso 2 which are soft-compound tyres. That meant they would offer great grip on the roads, but would wear out faster. My rear tyre was worn out way beyond the limit indicated by the Tread Wear Indicators and at one or two places, the steel radial wires were slightly visible. That's terrible, I know! My daily rides were limited to 5-6km through private roads and so I felt lazy and put off replacing the tyre. And one day, this happened! A few weeks back, one fine morning, I got a call from a friend to go on a bike trip to Hoggenakkal , which is around 140km from my place. Against my better judgement, I agreed and we rode to Hoggenakkal. Throughout the ride, we were mindful of the tyre condition. Anyway, the onward ride was uneventful and Hoggenakkal was terrible and disappointing (borderline disgusting). On our ride back to Bengaluru, we got h...