Continental Twinduro Tyres?

[Owenski]

Thoughts and opinions on these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120-70-17-58Q-150-70-17-69Q-Continental-Conti-TKC80-Twinduro-Motorcycle-Tyres-/350633885891?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item51a36880c3&_uhb=1

I've got a suspicion that this is going to be quite a white winter and with the tyres on the restoration been of low tred Im quite tempted to try something like those in the link.

Anyone tried anything similar or even these very ones?

[yorkie_chris]

Nope! Let me know how you get on though, just wondering if you might have any issues with mudguard clearance, is the /70 spec given regardless of tread depth or to center of tread or what?

You can move mudguard up a bit I suppose.

Do they make them in XJ900 sizes...

[Owenski]

XJ900 is coming back as using the ones in the listing above.

120/70/17 and 150/70/17


I'd not even considered the mudguard/hugger clearance issue I would have assumed that the 70 is so that it will be a direct replacment for any other 70 depth tyre...
My concern is the 150 width but tbh I suspect little lean in winter, I don't recall taking the drz's 150 over the lip despite dicking about fairly regular on it.

[yorkie_chris]

Those are for the 900 divvy, think mine are 100/90 18 and 120/90 18

They do the rear but not the front by the look of it, plus I have some life left in the front one.

[yorkie_chris]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-declared-uninhabitable-2012120752399

[Owenski]

Do they make them in XJ900 sizes...

XJ900 is coming back as using the ones in the listing above.

Those are for the 900 divvy

wtf did I miss?

[yorkie_chris]

Sorry mine is ye olde XJ900F not the XJ900S diversion.
(wasn't calling you a divvy! lol)


Here this should make you feel warm and fuzzy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmxzPNnzTA

[unclepoo]

I`ve used these tyre a few years ago...not on a big road bike but on a ts250x i had at the time, they gripped really well on the road for a enduro tyre, but by enduro standards they are very tame and not the sort of thing any of the guys in the TRF ever used except maybe at MOT time....But very good tyres all the same.

[Owenski]

Sweet just what I wanted to hear :-)
I'm not planning on green laning the Sv lol but I know the snow/slush days are coming and I wouldn't mind that little extra for those days, these fit that description nicely.

I just may have to take a punt on a set.

[andrewsmith]

The rear will be reet, the front end may need a tweek

Tell us how you get on with them

[Owenski]

The rear will be reet, the front end may need a tweek

Tell us how you get on with them

??? explain please pal, how will a tyre need a tweek? :S

[yorkie_chris]

Presume clearance for mudguard may need mudguard tweaking upwards a bit.

[andrewsmith]

Presume clearance for mudguard may need mudguard tweaking upwards a bit.

This. A 120/70 road tyre has about 5 mm of clearance on a curvy and mine has a impressive build up of rubber and crap around the the mudguard

[Owenski]

5mm is plenty.

And its a pointy, may be different - so I can live to learn on that.

[Vergey]

I have had these for 4000 miles on my honda dominator, they are pretty good off road, but not great in the ice and the wet. They dont do particularly well at keeping heat in when it gets cold outside, and the feedback from them isnt amazing. But in the dry they are great (considering what they are and the contact patch size). They are however the best of those sort of tyres (in my opinion), having tried a few of the different ones, and without going to full on motocross of studded tyres probably the best bet. Will be interesting to see how they get on on an sv 650. Pic below is the conti- special edition model....looks a lot of fun

http://www.cycleworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Continental-TKC-80-Twinduro-Tires.jpg

[Owenski]

I want it!

[Berlin]

I wouldn't use em, but I would put a set of Pirelli Block style wets on and to a bit of trimming with a craft knife and remove "Not" ;-)

Actually, they'll be terrible in the snow. You want as many edges as possible. not big blocks... And also as many sipes as possible too, but that's tricky on a bike tyre.

The older trials type tyres (http://www.trialsuk.co.uk/categories/tyres) with three times as many blocks as those would be a far better option. I've ridden in the snow to work many times with these fitted to various road bikes. Problem nowadays is finding them in road sizes. It used to be easy when everything had a 110 or 130 rear profile.

C

[Vergey]

The only issue I have had with the trials type tyres is their self cleaning ability at speed, they are fantastic all the time you are going slow (so probably fine on an SV in the snow), but get up some speed and they ahve tended to clog.

[Owenski]

Dont get me wrong if its the sort of sonw you're used to dealing with Carl I'll not be going anywhere on the bike.
The purpose of this tyre is very neiche in my view, I want a tyre that will cope with those mornings when the snow has partly melted and sits black in the gutters and down the middle of the road. Where my tyres will go from tarmac to slush and back again, I've riden like this many times on regular tyres with the odd moment. I'd hapily buy some new road tyres, to do the job but if the option is there to have something which is more suited then it seems to make sense to give it a whirl.

Quite simply all I'm trying to achieve with the purchase is buy something more suitable than avon storms (which would be my other option) to coping with the worst of what the British winter can offer.