Conti road attacks

[cheshirecat]

Have one of these on the front and just found out it needs 42psi. Well that what it says on the tyre wall and German Conti site. It's transformed what already I find a pretty good tyre into a much light feel, eve the pillion notices. Yet to try this in the wet.

Have been running at 36 before which seemed just fine.

[sinfull]

Have one of these on the front and just found out it needs 42psi. Well that what it says on the tyre wall and German Conti site. It's transformed what already I find a pretty good tyre into a much light feel, eve the pillion notices. Yet to try this in the wet.

Have been running at 36 before which seemed just fine.

Personally i'd go back to 36 psi The 42 would be the max rating !

[celticbhoy]

I have been too lazy to research yet but am looking at these very soon....so do most bike shops in Welly sell these? I was thinking sport on front and road on back.....good option?

[Hinny]

Personally i'd go back to 36 psi The 42 would be the max rating !

Especially in the wet.
I think it would be fine in the dry - a pillion always requires a little more pressure.
Tyre pressure should be proportional to total weight carried. Your bike wouldn't weigh very much - nor would you. Lower pressures do give better grip in the wet.

[sleemanj]

The correct tyre pressure is more to do with what's written in your bike's handbook, or you might find it on a sticker on the frame somewhere (on the swingarm typically).

The numbers printed on the tyre are the maximum pressure the tyre can take, not the optimum for any given bike/load.

[nallac]

Conti themselves recomend a higher PSI rating for there tyres.

42psi sounds right

[Mom]

Have one of these on the front and just found out it needs 42psi.
Have been running at 36 before which seemed just fine.

Welcome to my world! I dont have the flash tyres on my bike, they probably dont make them for her truth be told, but what I do know is tyre pressure is what it is all about.


I went with 28 front, 32 rear on advice, only to discover that infact the blue lovely actually prefers 32 front, 36 rear. The difference was night and day in the way she handled.

[AllanB]

42 sounds like the absolute maximum for a tyre. High for a front.
When I had Conti Roads I ran 36 on the front.

[klyong82]

Should be 36 front and 42 behind....they run well on those pressures when I had conti's on my bike...running michelins now and I run pressures lower than 36 and 42

[biggles1]

Mark

Ive been running Road Attacks on the Viffer for over two years now and use 36 front and 42 rear even when running with a pillion.Currently getting 12 to 13000 kms out of them.

[YellowDog]

42 sounds like the absolute maximum for a tyre. High for a front.
When I had Conti Roads I ran 36 on the front.

If it states it on the tyre, it means that it is the maximum recommended pressure.

Perfect for motorway blasts, but not much else.

With 42 on the front, you would lose grip.

As has already been said, the bike's handbook is the best guide.

[Marknz]

Especially in the wet.
I think it would be fine in the dry - a pillion always requires a little more pressure.
Tyre pressure should be proportional to total weight carried. Your bike wouldn't weigh very much - nor would you. Lower pressures do give better grip in the wet.

I'm no tyre technician, but I was always told to put more air in for wet weather riding as it keeps the tread patterns 'open' and allows water to be dispersed.

[YellowDog]

Of course there other factors that determine the correct tyre pressure:

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[Owl]

I'm no tyre technician, but I was always told to put more air in for wet weather riding as it keeps the tread patterns 'open' and allows water to be dispersed.

Neither am I, but I would have thought "wet = less heat" and "less pressure = more heat". I was told Conti's wear better with higher pressures, but 42 for a front seems excessive.

Perhaps Shaun can shed some light on this?

[NZsarge]

Have one of these on the front and just found out it needs 42psi. Well that what it says on the tyre wall and German Conti site. It's transformed what already I find a pretty good tyre into a much light feel, eve the pillion notices. Yet to try this in the wet.

Have been running at 36 before which seemed just fine.

Neither am I, but I would have thought "wet = less heat" and "less pressure = more heat". I was told Conti's wear better with higher pressures, but 42 for a front seems excessive.

Perhaps Shaun can shed some light on this?

A guy that worked in Phil Turnbull's told me when I bought some SPORTAttacks that after a discussion with people in the know that 42 psi was indeed the pressure to run in the rear and less pressure apparently had adverse effects on the life of the tyre.