little slip off

[dylandun]

2 years riding my sv and not a single slip.. 1 week driving a crappy 125 and my back end slides on a roundabout and i go flying off.. i do not like thin tyres i could tell they wasnt gripping well when i set off didnt expect to come off though

[maviczap]

Was it wet or damp?

Most likely some diesel or oil caused your tyre to lose grip

[dylandun]

not too sure wasnt very wet but was far from dry.. yeah i think that because the wheel just went mad wasnt going fast or leaning over.. the back wheel just decided it didnt wanna work for me!

had my nice back protector in and instead of landing on that i land on the side of my back pretty sore now! lucky it was low speed and no serious damage

[maviczap]

After a prolonged dry spell with no rain to wash off rubber,dirt, oil, diesel, leaves etc etc, with these damp foggy mornings, these places are going to be like ice rinks until they've had a good deluge of rain to wash this film off

[dylandun]

ahh good point never thought of it that way.. i can see your point alot of cars these days leaking crap onto the roads.. i blame lack of maintenance of cars these days everyone i know doesnt even know how to change the oil in there car! surprised they know where to put the petrol in to be honest

[_Stretchie_]

Well, glad you're OK, just wondering what tyres you have on the little fella?

I just started using a 125 and got Metzeler ME22(front) & ME77 (Rear)

[dylandun]

i dont know i think they are just stock tyres they dont look anything special and certainly dont grip any well

[maviczap]

I found my little 125 was much better after I changed to some decent tyres, the OEM were horrible in the wet.

This was back in the 1980's :p

[dylandun]

yeah my old 25 had better tyres than stock on it and i never slipped on that no matter the weather.. just very embarrassed by doing it on this so ill blame the tyres ;)

[_Stretchie_]

I've been wondering about this myself as the bad weather is obviously going to be here soon and for over winter, I've not been on a 125 since my CBT in 2003 so have no experience on them or the grip.

So mitigated the best I can with some descent tyres and just won't be an idiot.

Having said that whilst the weather is good I am finding roundabouts fun, I basically hit them at the top speed they can go around it as I can't power out of the corner :)

It's like driving the Land Rover, I've spent that much time and effort getting up to speed that I don't really want to slow down unless I have to ha haa

[dylandun]

i have cst tyres apparantly 3.50-16 apparantly cold psi should be 40? that seems high to me ?

[dylandun]

anyone got experience with the new crappy gn125 its a 2006? anyt better tyre suggestions? with grip :P