tyres for dry weather only ?

Originally Posted by rictus01

Sense, maturity, experience call it what you will I go through 4 or 5 rears and a 2-3 fronts each year and get good mileage in all weathers.

Cheer Mark

wow, you must either ride like you stole your bike, or do mega miles each year?

Still on same rear which was fitted 2 years ago, and approx 10K miles, although that is mostly town commute in the past year.

[yorkie_chris]

Both

[Winder]

In an ideal world i would have one bike for the ride to work with the touring tyre thats built to last and gives me confidence in the wet. And one for weekend blasts that has some sticky, expensive stuff that can be leaned over so far that people driving past think i'm Dani Pedrosa out and about in Surrey.

I've been told the sportsmart is as close to the "best of both worlds" as you can get???

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by rictus01

I expect and get at least 8k from a rear and recently nearer 10k.

Originally Posted by rictus01;

I go through 4 or 5 rears and a 2-3 fronts each year and get good mileage in all weathers.

Originally Posted by leebex

wow, you must either ride like you stole your bike, or do mega miles each year?

pretty much covered above.

Originally Posted by leebex;

Still on same rear which was fitted 2 years ago, and approx 10K miles, although that is mostly town commute in the past year.

Originally Posted by rictus01

if you do the average of 3-3.5k miles a year I guess in hobby terms .....

wow don't ride much do you, must be mega shiny.....

but joking apart I do the best I can, physical constraints and finances not withstanding of course.


Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by Winder

In an ideal world i would have one bike for the ride to work with the touring tyre thats built to last and gives me confidence in the wet. And one for weekend blasts that has some sticky, expensive stuff that can be leaned over so far that people driving past think i'm Dani Pedrosa out and about in Surrey.

I've been told the sportsmart is as close to the "best of both worlds" as you can get???

A. it'll take more than just tyres to ride like Pedrosa
B. if you're on an SV the tyres won't be the most limiting factor
C. "DEKRA found that a rider adhering to its test regime would need just 3.64 Dunlop SportSmart tyres to cover 10,000 kilometres" to you and me that's 2747.25 kilometres or 1707.062 miles each one, I'm not sure what DEKRA's regime is but even if you double it it's still not brilliant

Cheers Mark.

[yorkie_chris]

TBH sticky and expensive is crap if you don't get them up to temperature.

Originally Posted by rictus01

A. it'll take more than just tyres to ride like Pedrosa

Cheers Mark.

ewww whyd you wanna be Pedrosa?! mmmmm Stoner sliding last year Doocati's more like it!

/derail

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

TBH sticky and expensive is crap if you don't get them up to temperature.

Have you ridden with them for any length of time? (if you're talking about the SportSmarts)

[yorkie_chris]

Not tried sportsmarts.

Sticky is great on warm dry days but is like riding on ball bearings on cold damp days. Horses for courses though - if you only ride when the sun shines then sticky is great. For the other 364 days of the year you might want some sports tourer rubber. After all, the SV is a sports tourer!