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17-05-05, 06:19 PM

Just an update to my earlier posts on the Diablo's . I,ve now had them on for quite a while and so far i've done about 3.6K on them which is pretty damn good i'd say especially on a blade with a 190 rear , and riden pretty hard

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Well i can't speak highly enough of them . Just come back from a weekend in France ( went to the Moto GP at Le Mans) which was pretty wet at times . The grip was just amazing i felt so confident in the wet i could ride almost as i would in the dry with the levels of grip i was getting . I was more than happy to lean the bike over and hang off as normal , quite happily use loads of engine braking and spin the back up and the bike was just as steady as normal

Whilst coming back in the wet , Lee and myself were having great fun at outbraking ourselves at roundabout's , ie scrubbing off 90/100 mph and 2/3 gears in no time in the wet and the tyres didn't complain at all , SUPERB !

These are without doubt the best tyres i've ever used and would recommend them unrservedly , and considering that i've done 3.5k and still got a fair amount tread left then i would say they are pretty damn special . I've tried Avon's , Metzeler's and Bridgestone's (010's , 020's @ 014's) and these are without doubt the best of the lot .

Part of the reason i got them is for winter riding . Conventional thinking say's get a harder wearing tyre as you won't be riding as hard due to road conditions , b"ll*cks to that i say

When the roads are at there most slippy you want more grip not less , and a tyre that heats up very quickly . Ok so maybe you don't as many miles as some other tyres BUT a new set of tyres is a lot cheaper than a new set fairing's / Levers / etc . Seeing the amount of people falling off this winter on the site , particularly on cold tyres then i would definitely recommend getting a softer better gripping tyre ESPECIALLY in the winter . Needless to say i'll be sticking to the Pirelli's when i put new tyres on , might even put a super Corsa on the front and a Corsa on the back . The only other tyre i'd like to try at some point would be the new Avon Viper AV59/60's which are meant to be the dog's dangies .

17-05-05, 06:19 PM	#30
Topcat Guest Posts: n/a	Just an update to my earlier posts on the Diablo's . I,ve now had them on for quite a while and so far i've done about 3.6K on them which is pretty damn good i'd say especially on a blade with a 190 rear , and riden pretty hard . Well i can't speak highly enough of them . Just come back from a weekend in France ( went to the Moto GP at Le Mans) which was pretty wet at times . The grip was just amazing i felt so confident in the wet i could ride almost as i would in the dry with the levels of grip i was getting . I was more than happy to lean the bike over and hang off as normal , quite happily use loads of engine braking and spin the back up and the bike was just as steady as normal Whilst coming back in the wet , Lee and myself were having great fun at outbraking ourselves at roundabout's , ie scrubbing off 90/100 mph and 2/3 gears in no time in the wet and the tyres didn't complain at all , SUPERB ! These are without doubt the best tyres i've ever used and would recommend them unrservedly , and considering that i've done 3.5k and still got a fair amount tread left then i would say they are pretty damn special . I've tried Avon's , Metzeler's and Bridgestone's (010's , 020's @ 014's) and these are without doubt the best of the lot . Part of the reason i got them is for winter riding . Conventional thinking say's get a harder wearing tyre as you won't be riding as hard due to road conditions , b"ll*cks to that i say When the roads are at there most slippy you want more grip not less , and a tyre that heats up very quickly . Ok so maybe you don't as many miles as some other tyres BUT a new set of tyres is a lot cheaper than a new set fairing's / Levers / etc . Seeing the amount of people falling off this winter on the site , particularly on cold tyres then i would definitely recommend getting a softer better gripping tyre ESPECIALLY in the winter . Needless to say i'll be sticking to the Pirelli's when i put new tyres on , might even put a super Corsa on the front and a Corsa on the back . The only other tyre i'd like to try at some point would be the new Avon Viper AV59/60's which are meant to be the dog's dangies .