The annual tyre thread

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"these days" & "used to" being the important phrases, maybe? The Powers
on the MV & Roads on the Tig have never been remotely scary from cold,
unlike the Metz Sportecs I used to have, which tried to kill me.

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Go for the Vipers, if only to report back what they're like.

I nearly bought some last summer.

 

Whinging Courier says...

Too late, I bought Michelin Road 2 2CTs instead, as mentioned in another
thread.

 

Dunlop TT100

<runs and hides>

 

Cheng-Shin Barracuda.

 

ogden says...

Maxxis Barracuda actually.

 

I've got Pilot Sport Cup on the 10R but they're unobtainable now. When
I was trying to get one at the Ally Pally show the people I asked all
said they're softer than the Pilot Sport and had been replaced with
the latest Pilot Power.

 

Never heard of the 012, but I hazard they're softer then the 014.

I have a similar dilemma for the back of the 12R, whereupon on the 014
I have managed to comprehensively shag it out after 2000 miles.

So for me D207 or 020.

Prace votes now.

P.

 

says...

I'd rather fit bald Macadams than new D207s. There's a new B/stone to
replace the BT020, it's called the BT021. Then again, there's the new
Avon Storm ST which replaces my favourite AV45/46STs. Those AV45/46STs
are dirt cheap at the moment, like £130 a pair cheap.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/120-70ZR17-200-50ZR17-Avon-Azaro-AV45B-46-ST-
ZX12R_W0QQitemZ300079088612QQcategoryZ21669QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem?
hash=item300079088612

So far I'm quite pleased with these Michelin Pilot Road2 2CTs I had
fitted yesterday. They were pretty much scrubbed in by late afternoon
and in the evening I went to the local bike club meet about 15 miles
away, it was raining on the way home and I found them as predictable as
the Avons on the Bandit. This evening I went out and did a bit of
hoonery in the dry and they feel very good to me.

 

They were called Cheng Shin back in the day.

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Actually I bollocks up. I had 012s on the 750 and didn't like them
because they took ages to warm up on the road. Which is unsurprising
for a track tyre.

I have 014s on the Thou and liked them.

First impressions of whatever Dunlop's are standard on the 10 are good
as well, although they're not run it yet.

 

ogden says...

Maxxis may have been, but Barracudas weren't