Why are SLICK street tires so SLICK!?

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Originally Posted by gotta240

Mrmemphis- I'm not asking why my "street slicks" don't work as good as real slicks. Thats like comparing oranges to apples... I'm wondering why the SAME RUBBER that the tread is made out of grips WORSE when there is MORE of it.....


Sounds like the consensus is heat cycling.... Interesting and thanks for the replies.

So theoretically, I could take a set of regular bfg or falken street tires, shave them bald, and they SHOULD have more traction on perfect grounds than they previously did WITH tread...right?

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Originally Posted by mrmephistopheles

Different compounds of rubber act differently.

The rubber in your pencil eraser isn't the same as the rubber in your tires or the rubber in R-compounds or the rubber in a condom.

Your tires are harder than traditional "slicks," the rubber was DESIGNED to have tread, and the tread design was in place to assure maximum traction in the conditions that one may expect to find themselves in driving a car on the street.
Wear that tread out, you have exceeded the useful life of that tire by stripping it of the one thing it was designed for.