Little girly is Confused over tyres
 

Right, I have trawled through the Org's wisdom and am now even more confused! :confused:

I am in need of new tyres and have been looking about on line for a couple of hours, I have pretty much discounted Maxxis tyres because if it is that cheap, can it really be that good?! I have also been looking at Bridgstone BT021 having tried them on the horrible Honda and liked them. Then I found a link to the Angels after the wife recommended that I look at Pirellis. I currently run a pair of Continental Road Attack II and have had about a year of use out of them which has been fun. However, I am now thinking of swapping brands, not to save money but because I find that the Conti's are not so sure footed when compared to the Bridgstones on the horrible Honda.

My concern is that the Honda was just a shed on wheels and it was never going to get exciting, where as the SV is always exciting, even when just sat in the garage looking sexy!

Views please, £200 is a huge wad out of my wages and I am worried that I may regret the change if I make it! Girly indecision has never been so confusing! :smt107

Re: Little girly is Confused over tyres
 

Dunlop Roadsmarts - better than Avon Storm Ultras

EDIT: Although I do mostly commute, so go for the sports/tourer type of tyres with the harder centre.

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dont discount maxiss simply because theyre cheap, had my rear 2 and half years, and will be getting another fitted in the near future. dual compound and done over 10k miles.

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Maxxis are fine Jayne, used them myself for quite a while. Now using the earlier version of Michelin Pilot Roads (pre Pilot Road 2) and they're a damn good tyre, just that bit more confidence inspiring than the Maxxis. I got mine for £150 delivered from (I think) M&Ps.

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I've been more than happy with my Metzeler Z6's

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I'll second that - got a pair of Z6s for about 150 quid from M&P direct (not big on telephone manners but cheap and delivered as promised!) and they've transformed the bike.

So much more feedback and grip - I was on Contis before and never really trusted them.

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I had maxxi's found they were great in the dry, awful in the wet, i had no confidence in them at all, my sv had pilot road2's and no complaints with them, the cbr has dunlop road smarts i think and i haven't had any problems with them either

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This

and most of miles are commuter tyre spinning fun

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Another vote for Pilot Road 2's from me. Massively confidence inspiring in the wet

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Trouble is with tyres, as you're discovering Jayne, different people like different things. I've had Maxxis on a few different bikes (VFR, ZX6, RSV Mille) and personally I think they're great. The Mille (not actually mine, but..) got ridden pretty hard, and in the wet, and I never had anything by way of bother I didn't have from far more expensive brands. I was sceptical at first, but went for them as it was all I could justify spending at the time, and quickly changed my view!

If I was using my SV mostly on the road, I'd fit them - the only other road tyres I've had on it were shot so chnaged them after a few miles (Dunlops). As it is, the SV is mostly for trackdays so it's on BT016s (also very good - but probably not the sort of thing you're after).

But that's just my preference/opinion.