Shinko tyres?

**NordieBoy** · 16th March 2011, 17:07

Originally Posted by AllanB

So Shinko means Shit?

The same way Honda means Homo.

**nallac** · 16th March 2011, 17:55

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

The same way Honda means Homo.

So thats a YES......

**NordieBoy** · 17th March 2011, 09:06

Originally Posted by nallac

So thats a YES......

And the way Buell means Spuell...

It's the best I can do alright...

**Winston001** · 17th March 2011, 19:54

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

The same way Honda means Homo.

That's the one.

The OP has a Honda as well. Should have stuck to BMW or Ducati.

**NordieBoy** · 18th April 2011, 21:41

Just got another Shinko 705 for the back of the DR650 and a front and rear of the same for the TT350 on the way.

www.bits4bikes.co.nz has 20% off Shinko's this month.

**Drew** · 18th April 2011, 22:12

I run the top end Shinko on the front of my RF900. It has great grip wet or dry (don't get me wrong, it's no Supercorsa), and the most positive feed back I've ever experienced.

Jay Lawrence will also attest that they are bloody good.

Interesting fact. Shinko had been running very old equipment and churning out ten year old Yokahama technology for at least a decade. Continental howerver, having trouble producing the demanded numbers went in and retro fitted the Shinko factory with new plant. In a deal that they could have a certain amount of use for the facility to bump their output.
Since then Shinko have been able to produce a modern tyre economically and are therefore getting close to the level Yokahama were compared to other brands in the nineties before they moved to concentrate on car tyres.

**Owl** · 19th April 2011, 18:53

Originally Posted by Drew

I run the top end Shinko on the front of my RF900. It has great grip wet or dry (don't get me wrong, it's no Supercorsa), and the most positive feed back I've ever experienced.

Would that be the 003 or 010?

**Drew** · 19th April 2011, 20:57

Originally Posted by Owl

Would that be the 003 or 010?

Dunno, the tread pattern looks like a Pilot sport kinda. I bought it because I was broke and anything would be better than what I was taking off. Now I'll be buying them again because they are good value and stick like hell.

**Owl** · 19th April 2011, 22:04

Originally Posted by Drew

Dunno, the tread pattern looks like a Pilot sport kinda. I bought it because I was broke and anything would be better than what I was taking off. Now I'll be buying them again because they are good value and stick like hell.

Sounds like the 005

**Drew** · 20th April 2011, 09:03

Originally Posted by Owl

Sounds like the 005

I don't think they are still using the Yokahama names are they?

But seriously, I'm a convert. The Shinko on the front held up to me racing the Cliffhanger road race hill climb WAY better than the Bridgstone 016 on the rear, which over heated like a bastard and slid around all over the place. To qualify that a bit, I came second in the event to a 2010 R1.

**sil3nt** · 20th April 2011, 23:40

Have a shinko 006 on the back of my NC30. Almost as bad as my IRCs i had on my GPX. Fine in the dry turns to shit in the wet.

**driftn** · 21st April 2011, 06:38

Shinko's cant be that bad as Drew said he came second up the hill climb with one on the front of his rf also there is not many people can catch him over the Rimutakas, and if they really were that bad would the California super bike school in oz be running them on all of there gsxr's?. I have even considered trying them out on my zx6 this coming winter series.

**sil3nt** · 21st April 2011, 09:04

What type of shinko though? I am sure they make more than one tyre! I only have experience of the 006.

The RF900 can run quite a few different shinko tyres

http://www.bits4bikes.co.nz/parts/suzuki/821.aspx scroll to the bottom

**Drew** · 21st April 2011, 09:15

Shinko 010 Apex.

It's friggin mint I tells ya.

There are I'm sure a host of shinko tyres I wouldn't touch with a fourty foot pole, but these critters a good.