tyre recommendation for gsxr1000 ?

... and fall off it reg'lar.

 

Changing the tyres would just be a placebo, but that can be very
effective.

 

Very definitely, old chap, and I couldn't agree with you more. There
may be more to it than that, but I know I'm a crap rider, and can't deny
it. If I'm being honest, it's confidence in myself I'm lacking, and
need to rectify that ASAP. Due to geography, though, I can't get to see
Dave Corden or such like at the moment, and I don't know of anyone
similarly helpful up hereabouts.

I still don't like the feel of the tyres, though.

 

Oh ****, yeah. Doesn't everyone?

 

Start with this, and this is so blindingly obvious it may not be
obvious, iyswim: don't worry about the tyres; they are better than you
are. You're not going to crash through lack of grip. Really.

 

Surely the point is that he *could* crash through lack of confidence in
the grip, isn't it?

And I've never seen anywhere you could buy confidence (unless it's 40%
by volume), but you can buy tyres which come with a free confidence upgrade.

 

darsy says...

Are they really? I kept up with Flook and his R6 on Pip's Bandit when it
was wearing plugged, half worn Macadams in the dry and I'm certainly not
a riding god. They also worked fine on a 200 mile thrash with Bee and a
couple of her Scottish mates, one of whom is devastatingly quick on the
road. They aren't as bad as they are made out to be, unless you treat
them like a track-day compound tyre, and then they can just break away.
I admit they are shite in the wet though and I wouldn't want to do a
full on track day with them. They are more than adequate for an average
rider on a bog standard B12. Anyone who reckons they can provoke massive
slides or suchlike nastiness from them in the dry is either a hamfisted
****, should be sitting on the MotoGP grid next to Rossi or is full of
shit. Take your pick.

I don't totally agree with what Blaney's saying. As I said above, I'm
not a riding god, but I can tell the difference between different types
of tyre i.e. My T/ace had 020s on it when I picked it up, and they were
OK in all conditions, it now has 207RRs and they give more confidence,
turn in more progressively and feel as if they offer more grip given the
same conditions. The only time they give me cause for concern is when I
am hard on the front brake, when they squirm slightly. I noticed a
marked difference between 020s and Avon Azaro 45/46 STs on my ZZR1100,
and between the 010s and 020s on the ZZR11 I had before the last one.
Maybe this where the benefit of 25 years of riding a variety of bikes on
all manner of tyres comes into play. I am able to notice the
differences, whereas someone with limited experience may not be able to.

Differing brands and types of tyres can make the same bike react to
situations and road surfaces in some very noticeable ways.

 

Eddie wrote

I thought was number one cause of pilot error.

 

Well, exactly.

I remember in my recent 'incident', as I desperately tried to slip the
front brake enough to allow the wheel to find some grip, thinking "I'm
going to make it, I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it."

Didn't fucking help, mind.

But then again, maybe it did - perhaps the impact speed would have been
higher if I'd just thought "This is it, we're all going to die..."

 

Is it? I've always been a bit alarmed by the purely coincidental way
that outlook users get more viruses. I have a vaguely nerdy mate who is
forced to use it at work, as a form of protest he has a few Voodoo style
dolls and shrunken heads around his workspace "to keep the viruses away"
which apparently irritates the hell out of the computer illiterate head
of IT.

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.

 

*Nice*

 

I thought so, apparently whenever he's asked about them he puts on a
crap pseudo-Jamaican accent and babbles things like "gudoo be seaf fram
d deemons" and goes on a paranoid ramble about religious freedom and how
everyone on the net's out to get him, apparently they're all after his
cookies the Voodoo equivalent of lucky charms.

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Hmm, mine aren't squared at all and it seems to go around corners ok.
I've done about 3k miles on the current rear and around 4K on the
front ...

Tyres don't have to be squared even on long motorway runs, don't you
guys ever change lanes ?

P.

 

http://www.calastrology.com/voodoo.html

just in case you feel you need something for your IT manager ;-)

 

Bob123 wrote

What bike does he ride?

 

Coincidentally he's just about to do his CBT and thought his inclination
is twist n go I'm trying to persuade him that a geared bike is not only
more fun, but better training for when the CBT runs out ant he has to
hurriedly book a test.

The only stumbling point in my argument at the moment is that he wants
to keep his knees dry and warm, I suppose a C90 is the best bet, at
least they don't get nicked.

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.

 

Those are cool but I must ask him where he gets his, they are really
ugly as are his fake shrunken heads.

I think the heads may be the type that, before our lords and masters in
a, "won't somebody please think of the people" moment banned having
dangling things on your rear view mirror, you used to see occasionally
in mini cabs, but with the string cut off. I hadn't thought of it
before but it may be possible to bring down that particular bit of loony
save the people form them selves legislation on grounds of religious
freedom.

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.