Tyre choice for adventure riding? (Mixing road and off-road)

[Waihou Thumper]

That T63 is hardly worn.

Damn right, lots of life left in that....I will give ya $5.00 for it...Post it my way....
Bike shops charge and they pay $2.00 for disposal, itsa bargin!

[pampa]

Damn right, lots of life left in that....I will give ya $5.00 for it...Post it my way....
Bike shops charge and they pay $2.00 for disposal, itsa bargin!

LOL disposal ... i have few K left but not for next ride will be fine for commuting an odd karapoti though ... I'll keep it after to practice my skills weaving through tyres.

Also like to use the work tyre to practice rear locking turns ... as I'm trying to learn U turn, so far I almost got it doing to the left, but having more trouble to the right

I'm getting better at changing tyres I like AC10 don't have direction so less chance of putting them the wrong way

[warewolf]

Also like to use the work tyre to practice rear locking turns ... as I'm trying to learn U turn, so far I almost got it doing to the left, but having more trouble to the right

Yep, normal behaviour for people who can't keep their feet up. Left turn it's easy to keep right foot on brake and drop the left foot off the peg like an MX turn and/or to catch the unbalanced bike before you've actually stopped. Suddenly the other direction is a real problem because you can't both brake _and_ take your foot off the peg: you really do have to get it right, coming to a stop balanced with feet up. If it goes pear-shaped, putting your brake foot out mid-slide creates more problems than it solves, but is highly entertaining for everyone watching.

Useful skill to have - Greg Power teaches it.

[pampa]

Yep, normal behaviour for people who can't keep their feet up. Left turn it's easy to keep right foot on brake and drop the left foot off the peg like an MX turn and/or to catch the unbalanced bike before you've actually stopped. Suddenly the other direction is a real problem because you can't both brake _and_ take your foot off the peg: you really do have to get it right, coming to a stop balanced with feet up. If it goes pear-shaped, putting your brake foot out mid-slide creates more problems than it solves, but is highly entertaining for everyone watching.

Useful skill to have - Greg Power teaches it.

Quite true, and back to tires its amazing how much it changes this trick. With the old T63 locking the rear was really easy but with AC10 its much harder. At slow speed that is. I also found that is easy to control the slide on hard packed gravel than in grass , and wet grass

but we already guessed that didn't we

[pampa]

This is the AC10 after 850K and about 240 of them Off road.



For those worried about my T63, this one has clearly lost the 'M' on the center knobs which clearly indicates that its time to replace

[_Shrek_]

well I just got 7057 k's out of my rear shinko 705 as it failed a WOF because it was delaminating, oldrider had them on his Tiger & it did the same thing & like his the fronts are ok, it seems that its just on the big bikes that this happens to
some pics for ya

[_Shrek_]

[NordieBoy]

Only seems to be on the big bikes and only the bias ply tyres.
The radials seem to be much better.

[JATZ]

I use to run D606's on the DR650 and really liked them. They didn't last very long unless you keep the pressures high. The recomended pressures for the DR were 20/22ish and the 606 rear would only last about 2000kms at that pressure. At 30ish the rear would last about 5/6000kms.
Cheers R

I'm now gunna test these on the 750....
I got 2500 out of the K760 before it was bald in the middle, the outside knobs were getting down too. I had got used to it "wandering" while riding over Takaka hill, and it had become too easy to lock up up under engine breaking.
So far I'm happy with the 606 on a wee ride out to French Pass and cafe Underground (including his "alternative access" driveway) in the dry

[cooneyr]

I'm now gunna test these on the 750....
I got 2500 out of the K760 before it was bald in the middle, the outside knobs were getting down too. I had got used to it "wandering" while riding over Takaka hill, and it had become too easy to lock up up under engine breaking.
So far I'm happy with the 606 on a wee ride out to French Pass and cafe Underground (including his "alternative access" driveway) in the dry

You've probably got a few more torques than the 650 which the D606's may not like but I still reckon they are a good tyre while they last. I'd run them on a 650 or less but I'd never put them on a bigger bike (S10 or 950) cause it would mean $ goes

[NordieBoy]

You've probably got a few more torques than the 650 which the D606's may not like but I still reckon they are a good tyre while they last. I'd run them on a 650 or less but I'd never put them on a bigger bike (S10 or 950) cause it would mean $ goes

Fractionally more torque and loads more power, both higher in the rev range.
Up to about 5000rpm the 650 has more torque.

But when the power comes in, combined with the extra weight of the 750, that's where tyre life is going to suffer...


Wow. Just realized my '93 558cc Nordie has as much power as the Big
I may have to fix it up...

[Monstaman]

Trying the E07 rear and TKC 80 combo now on the DR, not much muddy shite in Central so the E07 should be sweet.

[Taz]

Got 3800km out of the T63. Got about a 1mm knob left in the centre.

[Oscar]

Got 3800km out of the T63. Got about a 1mm knob left in the centre.

Nice going.
The first one I tried, I got the pressures all wrong and barely made it 1,000km

[Waihou Thumper]

The Pirelli MT21 Rallycross tyres are a good deal at the moment. I know of four bikes heading south in Feb, they are all getting shode with the MT21 for the four week tour...
It will cost you approx $240 for a pair, good to use and abuse for the four weeks nand then put some road bias tyres on for the return trip to the North.
Tenere 660, 1 990 Adventure and 2 950 Adventures...
I am gonna give them a go, way way cheaper than the TKC, but I haven't priced Mitas E09's 130/80/17 and 90/90/21