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Excellent summary Mono with good information for all who use Dunlops 
I work with an engineer that used to work at Bridgestone here in Adelaide when they were making tyres for cars so I asked him about the tyre age issue. He said that the very fresh tyres are actually much less stable as the chemical reactions within the tire still going on after the vulkanisation process at the factory is finished. It can take up to 6 months for rubber to chemically stabilise. The reason for it is that the rubber does not like to be "rushed" so they use accelerators to speed up the process to get the production numbers as quick as possible. I know that he was talking about the car tyres but rubber is a rubber and the business is business.
I work with an engineer that used to work at Bridgestone here in Adelaide when they were making tyres for cars so I asked him about the tyre age issue. He said that the very fresh tyres are actually much less stable as the chemical reactions within the tire still going on after the vulkanisation process at the factory is finished. It can take up to 6 months for rubber to chemically stabilise. The reason for it is that the rubber does not like to be "rushed" so they use accelerators to speed up the process to get the production numbers as quick as possible. I know that he was talking about the car tyres but rubber is a rubber and the business is business.
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