dunlop qualifiers.... any good??

[mikelcfc]

just ordered a set without really knowing a great deal about them..... so what are they like.. .. got them for £202 fitted.. is that good or have they had my pants down
?

[fastdruid]

I like the RR's on track, not tried the standard ones.

Druid

[injury_ian]

Parp

they are OE fitment on Street triples, could'nt wait to get them off.
Ok in the sunny heat.

Crap in all other areas, ages to warm (if at all) if its any more than damp they will slide / spin.

I had the french ones which are sopposed to be better than the japaneese ones.

They have recently bought out the qualifer 2 which on thier test circuit knocked 8 seconds a lap off. (so not that much room for improvement then!?!)

[Dave20046]

Dunno what the qualifiers are like but you could have got avon storms for the same price.
I had 208rrs and weirdly found the avons better.

[GeneticBubble]

I have a pair of dunlop qualifiers on my sv and to me they feel like there going to slip once you lean the bike to a certain angle but somehow they just hold on in there :) i personally like the tyres and aslong as you don't try and push them to the max before they've had some time to warm up there A ok

[mikelcfc]

well this is promising.................. how long do they take to warm up?? and are they any good for track days??

[Red Herring]

I've got them on my SV and they get along just fine. They don't have the ultimate grip around a circuit as the RR's or the GP's but they have a wider range of operating temperature so I personally think they are a better road tyre. I must confess i haven't tried them in the rain (I use Avon Pro-Rains when it's wet) but they're as good as anything else in the damp.

[trumpet]

just ordered a set without really knowing a great deal about them..... so what are they like.. .. got them for £202 fitted.. is that good or have they had my pants down
?

Really liked mine warmed up nice an quick .got to legal limit at 4000. went for a new set but they seemed to have lost the rear one, came home with pilot sports.

[MCN_LiamM]

The Gladius I had had these fitted as standard. I know the OE fitment ones aren't as good as the ones from the Dunlop factory but I found them good.

I never really got to ride the bike in properly dry or hot weather, but they gripped fine in the wet and warmed up rather fast. I was impressed.

[mikelcfc]

well had em for about a week and they sem fine, a little squirmy but hopefully that will sort itself out once there propperly scrubbed in.

[Berlin]

Just done Knockhill trackday on a Qualifier RR front and a GP racer rear.

They were on the bike when I got it and didn't check what actual tyres they were before the track day. I didn't realise the front was a Qualifier RR until halfway through the day! I only noticed because the bobbling wasn't as bad as I was expecting from the GP racer and this turned out to be becasue it wasn't a GP racer :)

Despite being one down from the top of the range the front was stonking and I didn't have a single front end moment all day when the tyres were warm. Pushing them on lap 1 from cold saw a vague feeling but then i was running it at 31.5 psi HOT so not surprising.

The rear was really ripped up during the day and I did three laps as fast as I possibly could have ridden trying to catch a guy on a tricked up 400 who weighed 8 stone in his leathers! (I weigh 17 before I put my half a cow on! :) ) and the rear was showing signs of tearing. Grip was superb thouhg and when it did start to slide it was very predictable and reassuring. I ended up sliding the rear deliberately into turn 4 at the bottom of what used to be called Duffus Dip. Not good for rear wear. (They looked a lot worse than the photos below at the end of the day.)

As good as Racetecs or SC pros? Different feel. Not as much movement as the Racetecs and a different feel to the grip from Pirellis. But you have to ride like a maniac on the track to find the limits.

Some photos on my facebook page here...

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2040077&id=1494318148&l=296fcf33bd