Diablos

Kwak riders

M1 Sportec = Diablo Corsa
Rennsport = Diablo Super Corsa

Basic guide I got from a tyre tech that works with both. That's why I've gone to the Diablo, it's meant to be a bit harder than the M1.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by Topcat

The Rennsports are the other tyre that my mates on the Honda site rave about, meant to be excellent as well .

wicked tyre, I can't fault it, but for one thing, 1850 mile out of the rear, and it was well got.

Nice but exspensive.

Cheers Mark.

Originally Posted by rictus01

wicked tyre, I can't fault it, but for one thing, 1850 mile out of the rear, and it was well got.

Nice but exspensive.

Cheers Mark.

Yep - the Rennsports are known as being very sticky but wear down quickly!
I know a guy who races in th eMinitwins and he offered me a set of part worns for my trackday. He gets three heat cycles out of them before they don't work properly any more (1 session per heat cycle!) and he reckons that after another (or perhaps two more) heatcycles & they would be shagged any way! This is on race tarmac (smooth as hell!!) with relatively short races! Mind you, he swears by them & even tried a set on his GSX R600... The rear hed lunched itself in under 1000 miles on the road!!

Got these fitted last night.

Had a scary moment this morning when a car changed lane unexpectantly. I grab a hand full of front, it locked and slid, I instantly released and the front regripped.

I like

Not bad considering they only have 20 miles on them.

Just got back from Brands Hatch where I saw Leon Haslam put his Ducati on pole.

On the way back I was really in BSB mode and went flat out. These tyres really do make the bike feel planted and so far I am loving them.

Down to 1cm chicken strips on the rear and 3mm on the front.

The slip road from the A406 onto the A13 is really great too

Originally Posted by PeterM

M1 Sportec = Diablo Corsa
Rennsport = Diablo Super Corsa

I personnaly prefer the Super Corsa, I use them on my race SV and than put them on my street SV. I can't wait to try the Pro Corsa though

[northwind]

Though I don' thtink they do Supercorsas in the stock SV sizes do they?

I run diablos on the trumpy , love the grip, but the roads are a bit rough where i live .Only done 3700 km and i'll be lucky to get 500 more .Cant folt the grip though, but at $330 a tyre for a 190/50/17. I was kind of hopeing for a bit more milage.I brought a set of bridgestone battlax bt56r's of the trademe nz web site for $150 still with there dimples on them.So if they dont work out & give me the same grip , ill just have to bite the bullet & get me some more diablo's. :P

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 .