Anyone Running Shinko's New Sports Tyres?

[Sensei]

PS how do i get rid of the "L plate rider" under my name?????????????????.

200 Posts I believe should do it

[dss3]

What size and compound? and i will get a price. Same day Delivery so we dont have them on the shelf. thanks

PS how do i get rid of the "L plate rider" under my name?????????????????.

190 55 17 medium
120 70 17 soft

[kickingzebra]

Just about to test my new shinko 005s out. 350 or 400 bucks a set, at least I don't lose much if they aint that good.
Full photos and reports to follow.

[roadandsport]

190 55 17 medium
120 70 17 soft

sorry for the delay!! give alan a call 8493100 ext 2

[Mr. Peanut]

Just about to test my new shinko 005s out. 350 or 400 bucks a set, at least I don't lose much if they aint that good.
Full photos and reports to follow.

Any updates?

[cowpoos]

What size and compound? and i will get a price. Same day Delivery so we dont have them on the shelf. thanks

PS how do i get rid of the "L plate rider" under my name?????????????????.

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[cowpoos]

How are they on the road compared to Bridgestone stickies (say, 014 or 012)?

bridgestone don't make stickie tyres....

[Marmoot]

bridgestone don't make stickie tyres....

SOrry, that was figuratively speaking: relative to Pirellis and Dunlops

[Big Dave]

I'm working on a shinko advert right now. it features a very good endorsement from Tony Rees on the Shinko 003's. he rates 'em.

[kickingzebra]

Any updates?

Sorry, my bad... Have photos, but lost the USB for the camera... I'll find it eventually!!

Well, got them on, scrubbed them in.
First thing you notice is the big print on the side, do not exceed 270 kph...
Thats OK by me, only had the gsxr anywhere near that once.
The tread pattern is really quite good looking, and you would not know by looking at it, that they weren't any other big dollar brand.

The first outing on them was at manfield, on the Shaun Harris trackday Speedie put together.
It was a bit wet on and off, but dry on the lines.

Still learning to ride the bike on the higher side of the performance stakes, so I suppose you could call me a real world rider, and yes, I have chicken strips.... Mmmm chicken....

For me around Manfield, I was actually very impressed. They only ever gave the slightest tickle of not plantedness when crossing onto the front straight, over the wet starter markings, and once, when I hit some shiney concrete (an attempt to fix a groove in turn one) So over the paint, I had the odd back end slide, and on the concrete I had a front end slide.

The truest test, is that the bike is still undamaged from that excursion. The tyres didn't let go in a violent manner, and when they did, they regripped immediately after clearing the slippery surface.

The rest of the time, whether the track was wet or dry, they stuck brilliantly.

This weekend just gone, I took the bike to pukekohe, and tested her out.
I was going a bit harder this time, and the drift cars were out, making a damned mess of the track.

Nearly highsided several times, but the mix of mud, slush and oil several millimetres thick would have made any tyres life difficult.

As the track dried out, I found I was able to throw it at the wall of death (armco off the esses) with a lot more vigour than my testicular endowment allowed me to.

The tyres are plenty stoppy able, and when I can do a wheelie, I'll report back on that aspect.

I also commute on these tyres, and have found them to be faultless in this role. Wet and dry, under sane(and sometimes not quite so) commuting conditions and riding style, they have yet to9 come adrift at all. This includes on Cow shit (sorry bro) Diesel, wet oily roads... the whole gammut.

To be honest, I doubt in the dry, if you aren't a 100% rider that you could make them let go.

I'm racing on them this weekend, so we'll see how the pressure cooker treats them, and duly report back!!

[Cajun]

yeah i am interested in finding pricing on 003's and any feed back i might try these as next set of tires.

I read some good over seas reviews.

I know shinkos few years ago use to be slippy, but there were plenty of local guys here who loved them, since they cheap

[cowpoos]

SOrry, that was figuratively speaking: relative to Pirellis and Dunlops

I didn't thin dunlops made sticky tyres either....but have yet to try modern ones...

[imdying]

This weekend just gone, I took the bike to pukekohe, and tested her out.
I was going a bit harder this time, and the drift cars were out, making a damned mess of the track.

Drifting is the stupidest event ever. It's the iceskating/diving of the motorsport world. They should take their idiot 'judged' event back to their ghey boy Auto Salons. (yes, I believe judged sports aren't sports at all... if it's not measurable, it's bullshit)

[kickingzebra]

Though it is really funny to watch some tryhard giving it a go...
This 300 zx turbo was driven there, towed off, fixed, driven back out, towed off, fixed, driven back out, towed off, then towed away in frustration!

In the race cars, some dude took a nice new civic typre R out, and did a good job of stuffing that into the armco in the esses (god knows how) and the most tragic event of the day, a nice Datsun 280Z real mint, spun and arsed into the armco, again, off the esses...

But i agree, the point is to go fast, not sideways, sideways is fun, but it aint sporting!

[Cajun]

drifting has it place, many people would say the same thing about motorcycles being crap etc etc.

And drifting as to start somewhere, i rather these guys doing it on the track, then doing it on the streets!!! Just wish these open days would be more day for drifing, day for people who want to go arund and not smash in to walls etc etc