New CBR250RR Tyres, what are the best? Can you help?

[Mr Skid]

Know what you mean Felix, but I asked the guy about your tyres and he suggested that for my bike they really wouldn't cut the mustard.

Top end CBR is about 185 or 190....so just a bit more than VTR

I'm with Zapf on this one, don't need to spend big $ on supa stickies for a cbr250.

The top speed of a bike is one consideration with buying a tire, but (and I hope someone will correct me if I'm mistaken) any tire you could get for your bike will be able to handle 190 km/h. And I doubt you'll see 190 km/h too often.

I can see the benefit of stickies on a bike that has a lot of power, as it'll let you get more of the power down without the tyre slipping, however IMHO a cbr250 doesn't have enough power to spin up the back in normal conditions on the open road.

As for leanability of sport-tourning tires, MR was able to get his knee down and pull a stoppie on luke warm arrowmax tires on my bike. Check out Zapf's toe sliders as well if you want testament to the potential of his sport demons.

[Devil]

As for leanability of sport-tourning tires, MR was able to get his knee down and pull a stoppie on luke warm arrowmax tires on my bike. Check out Zapf's toe sliders as well if you want testament to the potential of his sport demons.

Yeh, had my toes down the other day (oops!), have a set of Sport demons right here.

[Kwaka-Kid]

blakamin you are ONTO it mate! my NC24 also ran sport demons and i thought htey rocked. whats this high powered 250 stuff? hell i get shit for only being on a 400 but its my turn to give it! ive got another 10hp on you and the demons were wcked tyres.

[Blakamin]

blakamin you are ONTO it mate! my NC24 also ran sport demons and i thought htey rocked. whats this high powered 250 stuff? hell i get shit for only being on a 400 but its my turn to give it! ive got another 10hp on you and the demons were wcked tyres.

Thats the one
10hp min... maybe even 20hp on the 250

[TwoSeven]

I get 40bhp out of my two nifty (stock with roo pipe). Its really easy to spin up the tires (dunlop 70s). Just requires a bit of lean thats all.

I'd go for the harder compound ones that are more suited to the rain. The dunlops dont like commuting at all.

[Kwaka-Kid]

eh lighting up the rear of a 250 on GPR70's ? go buy what shaede has, those Diablo's or whatever, he throws his cbr right over and hasnt mentioned to be about any sliding, i only get it on the racebike, and when it happend fully for a bit heading into a corner i was down on my arse.

[TwoSeven]

just give it a bit of wellie. Front wheel picks up if you havnt got it over far enough - get it wrong and you go splat of course - big time. Better to practice on a dirt bike til you get the nack.

But of course the normal saftey disclaimer goes here. Practice on an old dunger bike somewhere safe with the appropriate protective stuff and all that.. Dont try it on public roads or an expensive bike.

[Menial]

I got a diablo on the front and a dragon on the back, seems pretty tight apart from when I lost the back

[TwoSeven]

I liked the dragons. They didnt go cold when they got a bit damp like the dunlops do.

[MrMelon]

I got a cheap set of IRC tyres for my tzr before I sold it. They were only $210 for the set and they were pretty sticky! I didn't have any problems with them for the thousand km's or so that I had them on there.

[Two Smoker]

just give it a bit of wellie. Front wheel picks up if you havnt got it over far enough - get it wrong and you go splat of course - big time. Better to practice on a dirt bike til you get the nack.

But of course the normal saftey disclaimer goes here. Practice on an old dunger bike somewhere safe with the appropriate protective stuff and all that.. Dont try it on public roads or an expensive bike.

hehehe telling KK how to slide you should have seen him with oil on his back tyre going round Puke, still doing 1:13's

[TwoSeven]

he he .. sliding the tire is fun. Its when it suddenly grips its a bugger

Funny thing is - on anything other than a road bike - i have absolutely no balance. Cant even ride a dirt bike or a skate-board.

[R00T]

Remember folks that wet roads will watercool your tyres very nicely, and you really will not be able to get any heat into them, thats why you are supposed to increase your tyre pressures when riding in the wet.

BT96 are my preferred choice for the CBR250, though I have never tried a lot of others listed here, and will prolly try the GPR70's next.

[warren35]

What kind of pirellis do you have on there at the moment?
Im really enjoying my fairly new Sport Demons.

Mate where do you get your sport demons from as i have tried for my brother and no one in Hamilton will supply them yet the bros harley came with them so they are out there.

[Kwaka-Kid]

Remember folks that wet roads will watercool your tyres very nicely, and you really will not be able to get any heat into them, thats why you are supposed to increase your tyre pressures when riding in the wet.

Really?!

K ill be honest and risk showing my ignorence here but firstly: my tyres to get moderatley warm in the wet, and i let them down say 2 pounds as with the extra flexing rubber they heat up more (and obviously water cooling is working against this) and in the dry where they heat up alot i pump them up like.

is that not standard practise ?