Looking for some help to stop chewing up tires. This is from Autobahn South, upper "I" pace. Tire is a Supersport Evo on a CBR600RR. I'm thinking it could possibly be a hot tear. I have single temp warmers to 175 degrees and I may have left them on a bit too long. I've heard with this tire it shouldn't go above 150 degrees. Cold pressure set at 21 to 22 lbs. Recently had rear shock serviced (fluid changed) and set up to my weight. Any feedback would be appreciated.
The best, easiest, and more sure fire way to know 100% how to adjust your pressures is to have a friend stand at pit out and check your temps the minute you get off the track. Keep a journal of the temps, pressures and track temp. If they're too hot, go up a few psi, too cold, bleed some air out. I'm a total newbie and just use a shitty inaccurate bike pump but with a IR temp gauge I can keep my tires at peak performance. Another alternative to getting longer life out of your tires is to switch to the R3, $300 for good tires will last me 15-20 track days running lower to middle intermediate pace.
Make some changes. See what happens. Check your tire pressures when you go out. Check them when you immediately come off track. What's the difference. Make some rebound changes. There is no magic answer. If you want to learn. You have to make changes. You have do it regularly. Setup changes with pace, track surface, temperature etc. It's not a set it and forget it. You have to always be willing to seek out perfection.
Some tires, you do just the opposite of what you stated on the air pressure thing. The Power Cup Evo is an example of that. Hot tearing issues on that tire require letting air pressure out of the tire. What this does is to allow a bigger footprint and dissipate the heat over a wider cross section of the tire. The Power Cup Evo is extremely sensitive to pressure variations and thus the need for both a very accurate tire gauge AND pyrometer. There may be other tires that fall into that same category.....I'm not sure about the Super sport Evo.
21-22 psi is too low for the SuperSport. That is the low side for Power Cups. Try 25 cold on the Supersports, about 27-28 hot.
I'm not an authority on Michelins or suspension, but I always run higher rear pressure at ACC South. I have found this to help with the right side tearing that a lot of riders experience there.