tyres, whaddaya recomend??

[dhunt]

i think i saw him again today. :spudwave: what size[s] are his tyres? my service manaul says they should be a 17 front and rear, mine has a 18 inch rear wheel it has different wheels to most other bros650/400's i think.

150/70-17
110/80-17

Come round and have a look sometime if you want to have a look/compare (Send me a pm).

[Toast]

the bros is 56rwhp apparently [but i have an aftermarket exhaust muahahahahahahahaha its now probably 56.8rwhp ] i lost traction being silly buggers in third overtaking a cage this morning it was dry too i might go for the pilot powers.

That's rather weird really...must be an extremely hard rear...or you've got it at 70psi or somrthing.

With 101hp at rear wheel I don't think I can make Pilot Powers or Sports spin up...what's the brand and model of your rear?

[Mattyc]

i have some dunlops on my ZX9R - they are great in the dry, apart from they skid a little if you jump on the throttle when you are in footpeg scraping territory , they are absolute crap in the wet, cant put the power down coming out of a corner or the back just breaks loose and gets sideways, which is only fun for about .000005 of a second , even taking off from the lights in the wet, if you feed it a bit of throttle it will spin, its a total whore to ride in the wet.

Ive had pilot powers on my old gixxer 400 and they were quite good, but i found them to be really soft and wear quickly ? that was about 3-4 years ago, have they improved on the wear side of things ?

Dont buy the dunslops , and can someone tell me some good tyres for my zx9

[Toast]

i have some dunlops on my ZX9R - they are great in the dry, apart from they skid a little if you jump on the throttle when you are in footpeg scraping territory , they are absolute crap in the wet, cant put the power down coming out of a corner or the back just breaks loose and gets sideways, which is only fun for about .000005 of a second , even taking off from the lights in the wet, if you feed it a bit of throttle it will spin, its a total whore to ride in the wet.

Ive had pilot powers on my old gixxer 400 and they were quite good, but i found them to be really soft and wear quickly ? that was about 3-4 years ago, have they improved on the wear side of things ?

Dont buy the dunslops , and can someone tell me some good tyres for my zx9

I thought that Pilot Powers were only released in the past couple of years? If so, it was probably the Pilot Race you had...I get decent mileage out of Powers, for the grip they provide.

[Mattyc]

ah, maybe they were pilot race's actually, they were good , but jsut bugger all kms out of them

[ducatilover]

That's rather weird really...must be an extremely hard rear...or you've got it at 70psi or somrthing.

With 101hp at rear wheel I don't think I can make Pilot Powers or Sports spin up...what's the brand and model of your rear?

pro-tech 10r or sumtink like that. it was'nt very flat, i think the road suddenly changed [dropped or a bump] and the tyre spun becase of the lack of weight on it.

[ducatilover]

150/70-17
110/80-17

Come round and have a look sometime if you want to have a look/compare (Send me a pm).

mine has a 110/70-17 [front] and a 150/60-18 [rear], these are both different to the ones stated in the manual and factory specs, it also has diferent rims......wtf thats weird........