Continental Road Attacks?

[cheshirecat]

Just about to have the above front fitted to my VFR. It's used all year round.
Has any one else tried these?

[YellowDog]

The writeups are very good.

http://www.canyonchasers.net/blog/archives/75-Continental-Road-Attacks-Tested.html

Will be interested to hear how you get on.

[Hitcher]

Mid-sized bikes like your VFR should be more than happy on Road Attacks. Big torquey bikes, however, eat them.

[Shaun Harris]

Just about to have the above front fitted to my VFR. It's used all year round.
Has any one else tried these?




I have customers that do use them, and they like them a lot!

[TLDV8]

Just about to have the above front fitted to my VFR. It's used all year round.
Has any one else tried these?

They seemed to work fine.
One strange thing was the Fronts were made in Korea and the rears in Germany.
The tyre pressure seems to be critical and quite high,i did get some really weird wear patterns on the front.
One other thing being winter over there is to be aware if they cool off in the rain the next corner you tip into can be interesting.

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[Fatjim]

Funny, I heard they were good in the rain.

[Sidewinder]

Just about to have the above front fitted to my VFR. It's used all year round.
Has any one else tried these?

yup there fooking great! well for the road that is.....

[madbikeboy]

Conti's can be pressure sensitive. When cold, they can be interesting. Wear isn't too bad on the road attacks - race attacks get eaten by Scoot - but still way better than the Diablo's which gave me a worst of 400 odd k's before giving up the ghost.

[AllanB]

I ran a sport front, road rear on my GS1200ss. I liked them.

[xgnr]

Have been running these for about 10K and am quite impressed so far.

[cheshirecat]

Hey guys thanks for the above.
When you say pressure sensitive what range is being used. I find as the front wears down below 60% I'm having to go up to 38/40

[mangell6]

The Conti man said 36/42 for the FZ1, run the front at 38/9 otherwise to much wear.
Grip really well in the wet. They are a fun tyre . . . .

[Sidewinder]

The Conti man said 36/42 for the FZ1, run the front at 38/9 otherwise to much wear.
Grip really well in the wet. They are a fun tyre . . . .

yea i found they stand out better in the wet compared to all the other road tyres that grip strong in the dry!

[Sidewinder]

well what i mean is out of all the good sports tyres id say there the best out the bunch in the wet

[R1madness]

One strange thing was the Fronts were made in Korea and the rears in Germany.


The simple (and truthful) answer is ..... It is against the law to manufacture kevlar belted front tyres in germany.... its a hangup from car tyre manufactureing and the failure of some of those (car) tyres on the high speed autobanns... odd those germans.
The tyres are good as mate. I am sure you will like them. Yes they specify high tyre pressures but this is meerly to meet the EU regulations re tyre fitment. For example ALL (big) kawasakis are supposed to run 36/42psi. But if you mess around with the pressures you can get better results in terms of mileage (is it still correct to call it mileage when we use KMs?) and grip.

[smoky]

On my second set of Contis

The Sport attacks were a bit too soft for my bandit 1200, spat them out in 3500 ks of fantastic grip
The wet wasn't the issue, they were great in the wet, but a bit slippery in the cold, but nothing too unpredictable and even if they let go a little they soon gripped again.

The Road attacks have done 5000ks now and still going well, good tyres, good grip

[yod]

I ran a sport front, road rear on my GS1200ss. I liked them.

I did the same on the bird, got 6600 out of the rear, 8000 out of the front

[Cr1MiNaL]

On my first set of race attacks will see how they go...

[sinfull]

On my first set of race attacks will see how they go...
You will do em in two track days, then you will get 3 or 4 k out of em on the street ! Or you will do 1 track day 3 or 4 k on the street and try and push the envelope !
Or i could be wrong !

[NZsarge]

I did the same on the bird, got 6600 out of the rear, 8000 out of the front
I guess that's ok, mind you when you put that next to the Road 2's it's pretty miserable..

On my first set of race attacks will see how they go...

Race Attacks go real nice but disappear pretty quick, no real surprise there though. Try the new Michelin Power One's.... Then let me know how they went..:devil2:

[NZsarge]

You will do em in two track days, then you will get 3 or 4 k out of em on the street ! Or you will do 1 track day 3 or 4 k on the street and try and push the envelope !
Or i could be wrong !

Yeah from memory that's about what I got out of street compound RaceAttack's, about 4k.

[Bullitt]

Ive just about worn out a Road Attack on the back. Ill be putting a set on within the next few weeks. I got close on 18,000ks out of the back one which was far more than I was expecting.

Havnt had any other decent tyres on it to compare it to but they seemed good to me.

[cheshirecat]

Just been on a few days now including a few trip up and down hutt MW.
Beginning to really like it.
Thought suggesttion above somewhere running sports front and road rear really good.

Tyre feedback seems really predictable

Much better than the old Pirellis