I have bridgstones on my XS1100E and conti's on my XS1100F
but the daily commutor? na, what ever is in the cheap as tire bay, it dont go fast enough.
Use to have to put up with the old dunlop square edged cross ply years ago, on drum brakes. yegad!
Tire have improved heaps since then.as have brakes.
So ride a Bath tub sprung hub trumpy from welly to auckland, on cross ply tires
then come talk to me
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Put a z6 on the front pirelli and metzler are owned by the same company and share R&D and factories, so a z6 will perform very much the same as your strada. There should still be good supplies of z6 at present, but try to get a standard not a interact. I have fitted thousands of tires and have done plenty of mix and match, some brands match up better than others but never had a problem mixing pirelli and metzeler as they are so similar.
I once had a yokohma on the front and a shenkio on the back,
Must have been mixing brands eh
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
As Trumpy said earlier in the thread, I have his old Strada front here. Still has 3mm of thread on it.
Yours for the price of a courier sticker.
That'd be a bit hard to arrange. First bike I ever rode was a sprung hub 1953 Speed Twin. By the time the bathtub came out the sprung hubs were long gone, replaced by twin shocks.
Mind you that's all a long time ago now and the considerable lake of alcoholic libations consumed since then may be blurring the picture.
Anyhoo the bikes available today are not really comparable to anything that came out of Meriden.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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