tyres

http://www.motorbikestoday.com/features/Articles/avon_wets.htm

 

Race wets use *incredibly* soft/sticky rubber, that works very well at
low temperatures. They can do this because the water keeps them cool.
Once it dries out, the temp goes up and they fall to bits. Literally
- 3 or 4 fast laps on a dry track will totally destroy a set of wets -
not really what you want on the road, eh?

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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

The avons in the article aren't pukka wets, they're road legal tyres with a
wet pattern.

 

And, that "wet pattern" means lots of rubber blocks, all of which move
slightly and generate heat (another reason that wets stay warm). So,
when gunning it on dry tarmac, you will heat them more than a more
normal road tread pattern

[One of the reasons slicks work so well is that, with no tread,
there's no blocks to move around, and therefore less heat generated.
Therefore, you can use a stickier compound]
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GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Yes, but it's not a new idea. In the first UK test of the ZZR1100 by
Performance Bikes (in 1990), Mark Forsyth said "if any bike should
come with both slicks and wets, this is it"

I think the only reason would be a technical one, as you've suggested.
I also imagine that road tyres go through all sorts of homologation
bollox that race tyres don't get.

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GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
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Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

I would imagine your insurance company would find plenty of wriggle room.

 

And personal friend of yours truly

As the law is applied, then I'd say effectively, no. i.e. any copper
is just going to check the tread depth. If you were in an accident,
and the whole JP-accident-investigation caravan arrived, then who
knows.
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GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Naah, you're completely failing to spot the obvious - you need a spare
_bike_, exactly the same but with tatty paintwork and wet tyres
fitted.

 

Standard Diablos are a very good road tyre and not at all bad for the odd
track day, IMHO. In the dry.

Spin up like a spinny thing at the fist sign of damp, tho.... At least they
do on my Daytona 955i.

Dave

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bear <>
saying something like:

I've heard of a few over the years who've been done for using racing
tyres on the road. JP will know, but istr the catchall used to be 'unfit
for use' etc.

Racing tyres are a fair bit flimsier and much less able to cope with
crappy road surfaces, which adds an element of excitement due to suggen
deflation, etc.

As you mention up there (or down there), insurance ramifications might
be interesting.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

flash says...

Road legal full wets, and in GPZ500 sizes too? Oh deep deep joy.
It looks like I may be making a tyre purchase soon.

 

You've got the GPZ500 sorted then? Cool.

 

Muck says...

Not quite, so not so cool. Needs the bottom yoke straightening before I
refit the forks/wheel and then it's 99% there.

 

Getting there. I take it, from your tyre choice, it'll be a road
legal racer?

 

Muck says...

It's being built primarily with track days in mind, but also to be
thrown into service as my spare road bike. I'm looking to buy a 125 2-
stroke or 250 4-stroke trailie in the next year as well as a Gixer thou
by next xmas.

 

That's at least 5 bikes, if I've done my counting correctly. I wouldn't
mind a few more 4 cylinder 250s and maybe a 400, but that's not going to
happen any time soon. By next Xmas, I hope that I'll be having a break
from my engineering course.

 

Muck says...

I have 5 bikes at present - ZX-9R, GPZ500 and 3 CB250RSs. As and when
the GPZ goes back on the road I'll be offering the SOCB250RS, and the
two spares bikes, up for freebie grabs on here. I want a maximum of 3
bikes by the end of the year, and all of them have to be running and in
good nick. Call it a new years resolution.

 

Bear was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

They are a hoot.

I've currently got a front one on the Husky (combined with a rear
BT010, natch). That'll be the front superglued to the road
then[1]. Mind ewe, the rear one (which I've also got) looks rather
secondhand - it doesn't seem to like the big single.

Oi likes it, but I'll probably try a set of Maxxis Road compound
intermediates next.

[1] Excuse #111 as to why I can't get it to wheelie.

 

Well, I didn't even celebrate new year, make any resolutions or
anything. I think I was watching Cartoon network when new year slid by.

The RS has given you a lot of miles for next to nothing, I'd like to see
someone that has only had shiny bikes get that.... for a laugh.

 

Muck says...

Whatever happens to it, it will be given away on the understanding that
money never changes hands when it moves on. Instead I want a 20 quid
donation to be made to Riders For Health by whoever the new owner then
becomes. That's how much and who I gave to when it came into my
ownership.