Pilot Powers

[beyond]

Metzler Z6's.

Awesome donuts and stick well in the wet and dry. Never let me down and plenty of warning when things get out of hand. Once they let go they regrip very quickly, well before any chance of a highside.

[boomer]

aahhaha Dover, i had three moments last night; a suicidal dove, a huge chunck of gravel which gave us all a scare and a lapse in concentration in the tight stuff.. fukin funny seeing the lemmings follow me over the white line.

all 3 moments can be attributed to the shitty shitty Pilot Powers.

[Scouse]

all 3 moments can be attributed to the shitty shitty Pilot Powers.

Bullshit it was yer flopy hair gettin in yer eyes get a fuckin hair cut

[Cajun]

Boomer honstly i think alot of it is your head, but if ya head not in the game you will have problems i have the same thing riding on pirelli supercorsas.

Just get rid of the powers, i am sure someonen will buy the set off you

[boomer]

Boomer honstly i think alot of it is your head, but if ya head not in the game you will have problems i have the same thing riding on pirelli supercorsas.

Just get rid of the powers, i am sure someonen will buy the set off you

aahahha Cajun mate, i was jokin about blaming my 3 moments on teh tyres

that being said, enigma keeps telling me i power out of corners far too early and the bikes gonna bite me one day, well 'coincidentally' the rear gave under power on thursday which its never done before.. who knows?

hey, im sure all these tyres in the price bracket are top notch, its what you like and whats suits you and your setup ( including ya head ) ... i'll run these till theyre gone but i wont be gettin another set.

* edit, why don't you like teh SC's??

[Leong]

Just get rid of the powers, i am sure someonen will buy the set off you

I've been considering it!! But I'm not through with the 014s just yet, and meantime Boomer's putting the miles on his PPs, so guess the timings out. It must be a pain not being completely happy with your bike

that being said, enigma keeps telling me i power out of corners far too early and the bikes gonna bite me one day, well 'coincidentally' the rear gave under power on thursday which its never done before.. who knows?

Funny... that was what Aaron Slight told me I was I was doing at Taupo! Hope we don't do it on the road though..

[Devil]

Just had Powers fitted on saturday. Haven't had a big blat yet, just Kaukap and back. So far I think the M3's were better. The front and rear profiles on the powers dont seem to work together. I'm just about running off the rear of the Power, yet still have 10mm chicken strips on the front. M3's feel far more progressive in the corners.

Grip not a problem at this stage, you'd be hard pressed to spot the difference between the two. Next test is to see if I can get 13,000km out of the Powers like I did with the M3's.

[Bytor]

[QUOTE=Leong;776173]Keen to hear how you're getting on after a few more k's..... seeing you ride the same bike as me and also going from BT014s to Pilot Powers

Scrubbed in now but still awaiting to give them a good test. Commuting wise they are fine with no movement even in the monsoon weather last week. So it's still too early to say, but they are no worse or no better than the shagged Bt's. Suspect that unless you ride really hard like some do then it would be hard to seperate them from the BT's, M3's blah blah blah

[beyond]

Ummm, what sort of K's would I get with Pilot Powers on my GSX1400?

Rear tyres have lasted:
Pirelli: 3,000kms
Dunlops: 3500 and 3300kms
Pilot Roads: 7,000kms (best k's and real good grip)
Metzler Z6's: 4100kms, 4000kms and 3800kms. (good grip wet/dry)

Pilot Powers?????? Anyone. Remember it's 250kgs with a tank of gas so heat up is no problem.

[Toast]

Keep the pressures highish, 36/40 (I'm assuming there's a bit of weight on the rear of that thing?) and you can expect great grip and good mileage.

I had a half set of Pilot roads on my old 600, and they didn't seem to wear much slower than the Pilot Powers, maybe even faster wear under hard use.

HAving said that, I got about 7000kms of not overly hard use out of my last on the 'Blade and wouldn't expect you to get anymore than that on that bike.

[NinjaBoy]

Next test is to see if I can get 13,000km out of the Powers like I did with the M3's.

you'll be dreaming. I got 12000 before running out of tread on the front. (too many trackdays). I'm hoping for 7-8000km on the rear.

2000km so far and after some initial twitchiness in the rear it seems to have settled. Next stop 2 trackdays at the end of the month.

Also have switched back to the 65 profile which was originally on the bike.
M3's only came in 70 profile. Turns in faster but not sure whether that is due to tyre shape, 65 profile or just new tyres.

[loosebruce]

for you slow pokes i'm sure there fine, but if you want to get that last bit out of ya bike, then get the Dunlops

When did you become fast?

i have the same thing riding on pirelli supercorsas.

No offence Cajun but chances are you dont push the Supercorsa hard enough to get it to a decent working temp into it, hence it not giving you a good feeling.


And for the record the Power is the best road tyre i'm yet to come across, next too the Avon Vipers, Power's had more outright grip in the dry and wet, but the Vipers would slide very nicely compared to the power. But then again what would i know?

[boomer]

When did you become fast?

Whilst you've been making pita bread me old china

And for the record the Power is the best road tyre i'm yet to come across, next too the Avon Vipers, Power's had more outright grip in the dry and wet, but the Vipers would slide very nicely compared to the power. But then again what would i know?

you know how to make a mean desert pizza

[The_Dover]

I got 9500km's out of a PP on my gixxer but then that's probably cos I ride like a fag.

I've got a supercorsa on there now but it feels shit until it does get up to temp, then it's great, just takes me a while to get there.

I've heard a lot of people slagging the BT014's but I put a new rear on Vic's 750 on Friday and took it 2 up with the norfland crew and I've got to say I felt superconfident in that tyre ALL day long. Thru the forest, up old russell rd, everywhere we went it just felt great. The only other time I've felt like that with a tyre was on the PP's going up the same way. I'd choose the PP's over the BT014's primarily due to the better wear from the PPs. But if you can afford it and like the feel then the 014's are a great tyre.

[Cajun]

No offence Cajun but chances are you dont push the Supercorsa hard enough to get it to a decent working temp into it, hence it not giving you a good feeling.

Yeah i know bruce, i noticed that they wanted to fully cranked over in a corner, and were very twicty if were not, and for a while there i was doing abit of milage just going betweeen tga and akl. Never had this problem on the pilot races i have just taken off.

They pirellis were good when going hard, and as long as you were all way over, leaning
The sc1s were the set i put on just before we went for that road trip to wellington couple years ago