Two Bananas on 22

[MikeL]

good on ya for ignoring people obsessed with race grade tyres like me mate! I love the pirelli's but its great that you've found something else that suits your riding. The supercorsas do really sharpen the bike steering up a lot wirh the profile so thats probably what made it feel unstable to you.

Interesting. I've just put Pirellis on to replace Metzelers and found a definite improvement - quicker turning and more stable. But then in the last couple of days with the Metzelers I increased the pressures (why does Yamaha recommend 36 psi for both front and rear???) and that improved them considerably. So much depends on individual settings for pressure, suspension and so on.

[MikeL]

How's that PhD scholarship looking, then?

Well, you're obviously not terribly *depressed* about it all

PhD will have to wait another couple of years. Gotta do a postgraduate diploma first.

As for being depressed about redundancy... a few years ago I would have freaked out. Now I look on it as an opportunity.

Not saying that bike-riding hasn't sneaked into the equation somewhere...

[jrandom]

PhD will have to wait another couple of years. Gotta do a postgraduate diploma first.

Join the boat.

If you don't mind a walk up the road and being seen with someone from the geek zone, we can drink bad coffee and commiserate together at the student cafe next year.

[vifferman]

But then in the last couple of days with the Metzelers I increased the pressures (why does Yamaha recommend 36 psi for both front and rear???) and that improved them considerably. So much depends on individual settings for pressure, suspension and so on.

So your not one of those tossers who thinks he's a racer wannabee and runs low pressures to prove his street cred? Good on ya, Dude!
That and dicks who run race tyres on the street are two of my pet peeves.
While the gap between race tyres and road tyres has narrowed alot, if your riding hard enough on the street to really use the extra stick of race tyres then your being bloody dangerous. Plus race tyres have fewer heat cycles in them anyway, so unless your wearing them ourt real quick (see my previous point!) then they're f*cked before they've run out of tread.