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    Quote Originally Posted by Subike View Post
    lol, believe what you will
    I dont consider myself anything other than a capable rider
    After riding a couple of miles more, I might just get to being more than a learner
    But then what do I know,
    As for how my bikes perform with the tires that are fitted to them?
    Good enough for me,
    Mate I'm not having a go and riding bikes is cool. Once in a blue moon you will need everything you've got to work perfectly to get out of a jam, you can never second guess when that maybe and in my experience it will be at the worst possible moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy67 View Post
    Mate I'm not having a go and riding bikes is cool. Once in a blue moon you will need everything you've got to work perfectly to get out of a jam, you can never second guess when that maybe and in my experience it will be at the worst possible moment.
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Subike View Post
    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
    Mate I'm not after a pissing contest just saying that your original post don't seem that well thought out to me. Also not saying you haven't got a clue. Haha why the fuck would I want to ride a bike like that anywhere, let alone 600k....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dodgy1 View Post
    Morning all well its that time again. I find myself in need of a new front tyre for the bandit. I have Pirelli Diablo Strada's on at the moment but apparently these are becoming quite hard to source and the price people are asking for them is certainly reflecting this. The problem I have is my rear tyre is all good and I only have to replace the front so it looks like a change in tyre brand is on the cards Which brings me to my question. I don't need to change the rear tyre. So have any of you ever had a miss matched set of tyres on your bikes?? Where is a good place to shop for reasonably priced tyres?? Cheers in advance lads and lasseses
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spanner spinner View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subike View Post
    So ride a Bath tub sprung hub trumpy from welly to auckland, on cross ply tires
    then come talk to me
    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.
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