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

**cooneyr** · 2nd March 2010, 20:02

Originally Posted by dino3310

http://www.cycletreads.co.nz/product...helin_t63.aspx

dont know where you got your prices from bro

Still a $165. Size is 130/80-18 remember. Not some namby pamby easy to find and cheap 17 incher -

Cheers R

**warewolf** · 2nd March 2010, 20:44

Originally Posted by clint640

On the back I thought I'd try a T63, yep 130/80-18 available, $180. Eh? I thought someone said they were around $130?

Last one I bought was for the last CCA... $135 fitted. Prices have jumped several times since then - and maybe even since I last looked a month or two ago.

Originally Posted by cooneyr

Still a $165.

Or $179+ from someone else. Cycletreads' import business don't give good wholesale prices to their retail competitors.

**Wefaknis** · 2nd March 2010, 21:01

whats on your bike Anthrax?

**clint640** · 3rd March 2010, 07:19

Originally Posted by JATZ

Bloody hell $180 for a T63, was that fitted and balanced too, with a cuppa while you wait, and a complimentry bike groom ? I think I paid 140 for mine incl. freight. Still holding up well after about 3500 k.

Hardly, I fit my own tyres, the shop charges too much & then usually leave them at 20 psi & forget to balance them cos they mainly do dirtbikes. The shop usually charges freight in on top of anything they order for me too... then they probably wonder why we buy stuff off the internets. Got a chain off cycletreads too since it was $20 cheaper than the shop & I was already paying the freight on the tyre.

Funny how the 120 wide T63 is $6 more than the 110, but the 130 is $40 more than the 120!

Clint

**dino3310** · 3rd March 2010, 10:38

Originally Posted by cooneyr

Still a $165. Size is 130/80-18 remember. Not some namby pamby easy to find and cheap 17 incher -

Cheers R

still its not $180 and i dont buy namby pamby 17"s ive got a 130/80-18 T63 on at the moment....
im look at the cheapys on trademe for the rear, already bought a couple. ive only done about 400ks on the T63 (ontop of POs klms) and its chewing out fast, will buy another E09 for longer trips but for know it will be cheap black and round on the back and something trustworthy on the front.

**dino3310** · 3rd March 2010, 10:42

Originally Posted by warewolf

Last one I bought was for the last CCA... $135 fitted. Prices have jumped several times since then - and maybe even since I last looked a month or two ago.

Or $179+ from someone else. Cycletreads' import business don't give good wholesale prices to their retail competitors.

just get a VIP gold card and get it straight from them

Originally Posted by clint640

Funny how the 120 wide T63 is $6 more than the 110, but the 130 is $40 more than the 120!

Clint

yeah aye, you would think it should be $131

**Crisis management** · 3rd March 2010, 10:57

Originally Posted by clint640

On the back I thought I'd try a T63, yep 130/80-18 available, $180. Eh?

I put a 130/80 T63 on the rear for the DB from Cycletreads...$147.00, it's done the around the south island bit 3500kms? but is now half gone and no use in anything requiring traction off road, lasted better than the MT21 so now my tyres of choice are:
MT21 on the front (7000kms life)
T63 on the rear (unless I need a throw away and there's something really cheap around.)

Just a note tho, I prefer the on road feel of the MT21 it gives more feedback at the limit of traction and will slide predictably, I don't get that feeling on the T63, it hasn't let me down but just doesn't seem to give the feedback, I suspect it may let go in a big way.......

**Woodman** · 3rd March 2010, 19:49

Originally Posted by dino3310

still its not $180 and i dont buy namby pamby 17"s ive got a 130/80-18 T63 on at the moment....
im look at the cheapys on trademe for the rear, already bought a couple. ive only done about 400ks on the T63 (ontop of POs klms) and its chewing out fast, will buy another E09 for longer trips but for know it will be cheap black and round on the back and something trustworthy on the front.

T63 and e 09 pretty much the same (for me) in longivity. Tis hard to actually compare wear rates cos everyone rides differenter.

**dino3310** · 3rd March 2010, 19:54

Originally Posted by Woodman

T63 and e 09 pretty much the same (for me) in longivity. Tis hard to actually compare wear rates cos everyone rides differenter.

too true mate, comes down to the individual

**Transalper** · 4th March 2010, 14:55

Well, I just picked up another Mitas C02 Rear in time to break it in before the trip to the CCA.
They are really squarmy for a start until all those horrible patterned ends wear off then they are great.
Was going to do another Dunlop D606 as they are good straight out of the box but maybe don't last as long, but since owning my last D606 their price has shot up so am happy to take another Mitas C02 at $140. I take em home and fit them myself to keep in practice in case I ever get a puncture.

**dino3310** · 4th March 2010, 16:34

wow thats a very aggresive tyre, i didnt realise they were DOT rated, what kind of klms are you getting out of them

**junkmanjoe** · 4th March 2010, 17:52

it seams they are, from a web site.

The combination of the Mitas C02 rear and C15 front is probably the most agressive road legal off road tyres available and they are quickly becoming a favourite with green lane riders throughout europe. The C02 & C15 are fully road legal and the agressive patterns with a 20mm knobble height on the rear and 14mm on the front makes this tyre combination suitable for most terrains from very stony to very soft and whatever you encounter on a days green lane riding.

interesting.
JMJ

**Kokopelli** · 4th March 2010, 18:08

Who sells them?

**Peril** · 4th March 2010, 18:29

The C02 is an awesome tyre,does pretty much everything well.Mud,sand,gravel...all hooks up good.
A bit wallowy on the road as the tread is 18mm tall (from memory) new,but they hang on ok.
Highly recommended for the more offroad type rider or the adventure rider who like to have confidence in his rear end in all conditions. <--- sounds like an ad for incontinence underwear eh