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When you do we need progress reports posted!
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Geriatric hoon
Ahh well that may be very true but I was too polite to say so....Originally Posted by Hitcher
Fact is some sprotbike riders using high performance rubber will rarely ever have the tyre operating within its performance envelope. Particularly so if they are living in a large urban centre.
They would probably be better off using tyres that were working within the temperature range the designers intended.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Forum whore
Will a Pilot Road 2 front work OK with a Macadam 100X rear?
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You try telling them that. As soon as I mention sport tourer compound, like the stradas, I get rubbished. pfffft, I'm too fast for touring compound... uh-huh?Fact is some sprotbike riders using high performance rubber will rarely ever have the tyre operating within its performance envelope. Particularly so if they are living in a large urban centre.
They would probably be better off using tyres that were working within the temperature range the designers intended.
As you mention (and its sooo valid), sticky tyres are only stickier at their intended operating temperature. The number of people that think if they buy the stickiest stuff they can get, it will help...
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Still fond of Metzler Z6s - a good all purpose tyre
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Hardcore Biker
Mate is supposed to be running a couple on the Southern Cross, will be keen to see how they go.
Hardcore Biker
Looking at getting some new rubber fitted this weekend and the 2CTs are in joint first place on my list with the new Corsa III... I've been running (and rated highly) 014s for a while but figured it was time I tried something else.
I'm quite surprised to see you guys discussing the 2CTs in comparison to the 020... the 020 was a sports touring tyre, the 2CT is marketed more as a sports tyre over here (fast road and track, rather than sport touring). The 2CT is more in line with the 002 than an 020 iirc
What a difference indifference can make
Geriatric hoon
The 2ct system has now been extended the latest Michelin sport touring tyres.
Thus the new Pilot Road2 is directly comparable to BT020, Strada, Z6, etc.
Which is (sort of) what we're talking about
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Hardcore Biker
Ahhhhh, ok cheers for the info... makes mental note to check he's getting the right tyres fitted today
What a difference indifference can make
BBNDR
Michelin Pilot Road 2
Pirelli Diablo Strada
These two seem to suit how, when and where I ride.
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Anyone run a pilot road front tyre? I've gotta replace front and rear, and looking at the Pilot Road 2 on the rear, but not sure if I should run the same on the front, or get something stickier like the Pilot Sport.
Answers on a postcard...
Geriatric hoon
Sorry about the postcard.
Previously I have run "mix and match" tyres of the same make but latterly wouldn't bother.
The different Michelin tyres have different profiles, I seem to recall that the Pilot Sport is less round in section. Having different profiles front and rear may have an unexpected effect on handling?
The sport touring tyres are generally designed to handle wet weather better, so in the rain your plan could have exactly the opposite effect to what you intended.
I think the tyre manufacturers already figured out the different demands of front and rear tyres and build that in, so now I prefer to stick to pairs of tyres designed to operate together.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
eschew obsification...
just faced with the same thing - been told by distributor that these especially designed to run in pairs ...........
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Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons....... - Honore de Balzac
Recovered workaholic.
but I'm due for another set
I ended up going PR2 rear and PP2CT front, and as I expected they expired at the same time. I'm tempted to go the same again, since I never lost confidence in them (fantastic in the wet).
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Ive had over 10000 ks out of my PP2Ct's on my R6 AND...it just got another warrant on them.
Im going to do clubmans this year on'er & was thinking of getting something stickier but as I dont have warmers I was thinking I'd be possibly better off sticking with te 2ct's as they'd heat up better?
Will definitely stick with the Mitchelins though as Im happy as with them & they havnt let me "down" yet
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