deploy the yak!
no, fair call...Originally Posted by The Stranger
I rode all those tyres in good and bad weather and the SA didn't have an issue at any other time (fantastic in the dry).
the hail may well have been the problem and, to be fair, the road surface wasn't top notch either (SH1 between Houhoura and Kaitaia)
F M S
Hardcore Biker
I've 'heard' that the dual compounds only have the soft compound 1 inch from the outside in of the tyre. So it's a very small section of the tyre that has the sticky stuff?
So in the wet you wouldn't be on this section of the tyre at all I'd guess.
Recovered workaholic.
Ditto. Brilliant in rain, hail or shine.
If it wasn't for a concise set of rules, we might have to resort to common sense!
STEVE!
Road 2's are the way to go.
With a power 2CT front though.
The instructions are simple...
Many have found that combo to not be so good.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Forum whore
I have been on the Ngatea straights doing steady100kph in howling rain at night and had the back just spin up and start fish tailing, several times. It had been a hot summers day and I assume I was hitting tar bleed.
The tyre that was on at the time was otherwise great and I had no problems at all with it. I wouldn't let a single event like that sway my opinion of that tyre and wouldn't hesitate to run them again.
Forum whore
PR2's front and rear on the big heavy wallowy (so I've been told) RF. They're a great tyre - wet or dry. I'm onto my second set now after the first pair did over 16,000 k's. The only time I felt they were letting go was towards the end of their life. Yep, I do ride like a nana but I got wear out to the edges well enough.
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
Recovered workaholic.
I found it a good combo but the front wore out faster than the rear.
If it wasn't for a concise set of rules, we might have to resort to common sense!
The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
Shit i thought the forgotten highway pace was good >_<
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Deus ex ukulele
I often amazes me the different experiences riders have in relation to the same tyre.
My most recent case in point is the OEM Dunlop Qualifiers that adorn my Shiver. I'm really enjoying them and, after 5,500km, have yet to have them put a foot wrong, as it were.
However on the Aprilia Forum (another place that KB members who think that this site is over-moderated would be advised to participate in), I have yet to find a Shiver owner who thinks that these are anything more than Pieces of Shit(TM). "Quarry-fillers" one wit over there has named them.
Feedback from the Aprilia Forum also suggests that my Qualifiers should be long worn out by now. I reckon they've got about another 2,000 to 3,000km left in them.
Bikers can be interesting people at times.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Forum whore
Ah, no. I still had 2" chicken strips at the pub.
You can relax though, I got rid of them on the way back in the sun.
Was so warm I just about lost my pillion on SH3.
Does anyone else get that falling feeling just as you enter sleep - well apparently Cecile does.
NEDWN VIII
You had it on cruise controll 110 eh??
The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
i didnt have any chicken strips left
come to think of it, ive never had any - other than when r6 did a burnout at the election party and stuffed my tyre up somthing cronik.
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Forum whore
Well Maha, I have this theory.
The number of cops per km is inversley proportionate to the SH number.
Best Frenemy you could have!
Completely depends from tyre to tyre, manufacturer to manufacturer. The early 2ct model was prone to that from memory, but I never ran them. Other models have wider strips.
Stranger, I did 16,000km on two sets of Scorpion Syncs, all weather, from melted tar to pissing with rain in the middle of the night. They pretty much stuck like glue, a few times I wondered what would ever get them to break loose, but very difficult on the road (was a supermoto though, so not as demanding as a thou for instance).
016, fitted them as an experiment, they seemed to be a hypersport tyre but good all round performance. pffft, someone was drunk. Edges are incredibly soft, had them blistering and peeling very easily, so would be great in the dry. However... puttering into a corner in the hikuais heading to Paeroa the saturday prior to the event (raining quite a lot), I lowsided. Unless there was diesel or something, I can't believe they let go so quickly with so little being demanded from them (and had plenty of other little slides in the damp as well). Can't say that with syncs I wouldn't have binned, but with 16,000km and no issues, you have to wonder.
PR2: I've had them fail once quite badly on me once, when the rear spun up, got into a tankslapper, front aquaplaned, and I and bike separated for the next 100m down the road...Otherwise, probably at least 15,000km on those, takes quite a lot to get them letting go (ohlins on the rear tho).
SportAttack were ok, never sent me down the road, but wet weather performance was ok... you certainly knew it was a sport tyre, as it was great in the dry, little dodgy in the wet.
Strada and Z6, also spent time on them, dual compound again... not bad, but PR2 better.
Its not so much dual/multi compound being bad, more specific tyres, and their own performance.
Anyone want a set of barely used (<1000km) 016? One set available shortly...
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