Tyre choice for adventure riding? (Mixing road and off-road)

[junkmanjoe]

Hey guys,

The range of tyres to choose from and combination front and back is very much key to a successful ride this year for me 25000km thruogh russia stans eastern europe desserts, mud, lots of gravel and tarmack..

wow what a great effort.. any links to your photos,,,
my vote is for the mitas E-07 and E-09, they stick to the road, and last for a long time.
I always ran the mitas on my dr650, and never had any trouble with them, or flats to the mater, i was also useing the mitas heavy duty rubber tubes..
give robin a call at LMS imports Palmerston north, hes my local mitas dealer, top bloke to deal with..
i just brought a new mitas to day off LMS..

JMJ

[NordieBoy]

wow what a great effort.. any links to your photos,,,

Let them do the trip first

[Taz]

i'm running the E-07 on my R1100GS and the E-09 on the 525's rear supermoto rim. E-07 works well as an all roads tyre on the GS while the E-09 on the 525 is a great road trail compromise. Both are wearing exceptionally well.

[junkmanjoe]

Let them do the trip first

JMJ

[JATZ]

Just took the klr for its first scrub in with the new t63 rear and the( hardly used but was sitting forgotten in the shed )d606 front. All good, the t63 done its usual weird new t63 shimmy thing on the tar but will go away soon, but the d606 makes the front seem very light and at plus 100k speeds on gravel the front shakes from sided to side something chronic. Its quite bizarre but doesn't seem unsafe.

I had about 25psi in it , what pressure do other d606 users run?


Note I had almost a full tank, about 24 litres on board which is never good but never like this.

Turns out we had a brand new t63 sitting in the shed, MrsJatz got it for the D.B. last year and never used it, but she will this year. It looked sooooo shiney I went and ordered one for m'self, should be here wednesday.
So it's a tyre thing on the seal, I thought I'd done something wrong when putting it back on
So what pressure do the gurus recomend for seal and gravel with these things ?

[NordieBoy]

So what pressure do the gurus recomend for seal and gravel with these things ?

Use your normal technique

[Woodman]

Turns out we had a brand new t63 sitting in the shed, MrsJatz got it for the D.B. last year and never used it, but she will this year. It looked sooooo shiney I went and ordered one for m'self, should be here wednesday.
So it's a tyre thing on the seal, I thought I'd done something wrong when putting it back on
So what pressure do the gurus recomend for seal and gravel with these things ?

So does yours do the shimmy weavy thing too? If so it soon goes away.

I run about 25 in the rear, and the d606 seemed better today at 21psi.

The d606 has about 1000k on it when it was on my xl600 and has been in the shed for about 3 years. I was looking at it today and it has cracks at the base of the knobs like my rear tyres get after a while. Is this normal? , and what is the shelf life of a tyre? Just wondering is all.

[JATZ]

Use your normal technique

Thats the boys department now, he's reeeeal anal about tyre pressure. Dunno where he got that from, wasn't either of us

[JATZ]

So does yours do the shimmy weavy thing too? If so it soon goes away.

I run about 25 in the rear, and the d606 seemed better today at 21psi.

Yup, wobbly as a wobbly thing

[warewolf]

what is the shelf life of a tyre? Just wondering is all.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Warning over old tyres

Front end shimmy can also be caused (or contributed to) by rear suspension settings. The stiff sidewalls on the new T63 may be altering things enough to upset the front (or are they soft to start with and get harder? )

[NordieBoy]

Thats the boys department now, he's reeeeal anal about tyre pressure. Dunno where he got that from, wasn't either of us

Maybe it skips a generation?

[Woodman]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Warning over old tyres

Front end shimmy can also be caused (or contributed to) by rear suspension settings. The stiff sidewalls on the new T63 may be altering things enough to upset the front (or are they soft to start with and get harder? )

Very interesting, but almost no help as per usual, e.g. too many opinions. Went to the michelin and dunlop sites and there is nothing there about age either except the dunlop site says that how you store tyres can directly affect their performance or thereabouts. The only number that co-relates to a date on the tyre in 020905, which would be about right considering when i got it.

Just got the light and inspected the cracks. They aren't cracks at all just sorta look like cracks at the base of the knobs.
I'll see how it goes on the dusty, I got 6 days of riding to test it out. woohoo.

[Padmei]

If it's any consolation Woodman my newish but really worn 606 front also has cracks starting around the base of the knobs.
I tend to look at them as laughter lines.

[NordieBoy]

Your tyres laugh at you?

Or with you?

[bart]

I know guys who buy car tyres years in advance. As long as they are kept out of sunlight, the theory is that the rubber hardens, and gives better wear.

I have a couple of high performance Yokohama's on my car. These had been sitting in a mates shed for years, and they are wearing better than any other tyres I've tried, and they have the worst wear rating by far. My manual V8 is VERY hard on tyres.

Don't know if this means shit for knobbly bike tyres though.