rear tyre squaring off

[bombom]

May be a hard thing to explain but if possible from any commuters out there could try to explain what sort of handling difficulties you could experience from a squaring off rear tyres.

Basically my problem is my rear is slightly starting to square off and occasionaly i get a weird feeing that my rear wheel is sort of trying to go in a different direction, its only very slight and doesnt feel dangerous or anything.

cheers

[CaNsA]

What rubber you got on there?

[unitynotsocri...]

As you lean over the corner of the square squashes into the road and creats a bit of instability or the feeling that the back end is about to slip.If your running on a cheap nylon tyres replace them with real rubber ones,the handling will be much improved and there much safer in the wet.I'm astounded that many manufacturers still fit shite nylon jobs as in the real world of water ,like the uk they are dangerous.

feeling like the bike is trying to go in a different direction may be due to rear wheel alignment.

have you ever seen an old 125 with a front tyre thats got loads of tread yet the sidewall is cracking?Thats because nylon is so hard wearing,but gripping is,nt one of its qualities.

Trying to save a few bob because the tyre 'still got the legal tread depth' could kill you.
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[bombom]

The tyre is a metzeller tyre , personally iv never heard of them but have been told they are good tyres?

I aslo thought of the wheel alignment but wouldnt it do it all the time if that was out as its only occasionaly like say if i hit some uneven road or inperfections on the road (forgot to say that all this occurs on the motorway),
I have been checking the alignment using the markers on the chain adjusters only, is there another way thats easy.

Could anyone reccomend a set of tyres for a suzuki bandit400 1993 as the front is a dunlop which aint too great on tread and rear is the metzeller which are both pretty old now i think as the bike has not done a great deal of miles

Sorry for all the questions but i do an awful lot of miles on this bike to get to work and rely heavily on it.
cheers

[unitynotsocri...]

Metzelers are good tyres.when choosing new ones dont go for a square type section.
You can check wheel alignment by using a straight stiff peice of wood or metal,or try marking out a thin line on level concrete.Knacked wheel bearings and a dogdy shock'swingarm bearings/pivot can also give the symptoms you descibe
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