Originally Posted by
tri boy
Cheers for the advice Mark
Doing a bit of research now actually, and the T63 pops up regular.
Als0 Pirelli MT21, V rubber VRM147?, and D606's.
I will sniff round town this week for deals.
Thanks again. Really need the good advice with the XR's.
I'm chasing a larger 140/80-18 VRM147 at the moment but from what I can find out there are none in the country at the moment. The MT21's have a bit of a tendency to chunk, never had a T63 but people seem to rave about them. I'm a huge fan of a D606. Use to run a 130 on the DR650 and it was awesome. Obviously lots of gravel down here in Canty etc and not a lot of mud. Guessing you have very different surface.
Big thing with all of these tyres is to watch pressures. I could kill a 120 wide rear D606 in about 1500kms at 22psi (DB and a bit). Put it up to 28/30psi and it will last for 5000kms. On gravel the pressure increase doesn't make a huge difference to traction. On sand/mud etc obviously drop the pressure.
Cheers R
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