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Originally posted by nostatic
It is debatable, but more than one person has indicated that it is better to shave RA-1s, as full tread gets too hot and you chuck rubber off.
Is this true? I have heard people complain of tread squirm and being slower by a second or three on full-tread RA-1s, but I have never heard of them chunking, even in the hottest conditions. Has this happened a lot and I just missed the reports of it?

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