Time for new tires...
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Time for new tires...
The belt is showing on my rear tire, so it's time for some new shoes!
I've narrowed my choices down to these three tires, I've read the reviews of basically every tire, and these three stuck out. Unfortunately most reviews are taken on a track, where I spend no time. I put on about 7K miles a year, and I love the twisties, which are a weekly meeting point for me and my friends. Does anybody here have any personal experience with these tires?
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Michelin Pilot Road-
Continental Road Attack-
And these are the wild card, they've gotten good reviews and people say they're surprisingly good. I'd almost be willing to give them a try and if they don't work out for me toss em...
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I've narrowed my choices down to these three tires, I've read the reviews of basically every tire, and these three stuck out. Unfortunately most reviews are taken on a track, where I spend no time. I put on about 7K miles a year, and I love the twisties, which are a weekly meeting point for me and my friends. Does anybody here have any personal experience with these tires?
*Click on name to see prices etc...*
Michelin Pilot Road-
Continental Road Attack-
And these are the wild card, they've gotten good reviews and people say they're surprisingly good. I'd almost be willing to give them a try and if they don't work out for me toss em...
Shinko 005-
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I had Michelin Pilot Roads before my 2 CT's and I thought they were a good touring tire. I took my bike to the mountains with them a few times and I got the bike over as far as I wanted and I never really had any problems. They don't grip was good as the 2CT obviously and the bike took more to lean it over but if you want a good touring/mileage tire they are good. I had 6500 miles on them and they still had 4/32's of tread left on them.
It's hard to judge what kind of tire you need without knowing how hard you ride. If you're going for max lean angle all the time in the mountains i would probably get somethign stickier than a pilot road.
It's hard to judge what kind of tire you need without knowing how hard you ride. If you're going for max lean angle all the time in the mountains i would probably get somethign stickier than a pilot road.
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Like he said it all depends on your riding style. If you like hitting a lot of twisties and curves i wouldnt recomend it. But if you just like cruising around town and hitting the highway then sure those are for you. I personally ride the pirelli diablo corsa III's and i love those tires. They wear fairly slow and super sticky. They have like two different compounds in the center they are a harder compound and on the sides they are more sticky for leaning into the curves.... great tires.
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If you're gonna go with the roads and you do twisties it would just make sense to get the road 2cts and have the softer outside edge rubber. just my thought. I actually just started running them on mine, but haven't had much time on them yet.
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Get Pilot Powers or a similar tire if you intend on doing twisties regularly. I wouldn't trust a commuter tire to weekend shenanigans.
I've run normal Powers then two sets of 2CTs. They work great for me, so I'll stick with them.
I've run normal Powers then two sets of 2CTs. They work great for me, so I'll stick with them.
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Decent prices on 2CTs:
http://www.derbycycles.com/cgi-bin/e...x.cgi?pid=3521
I am not sure of the shipping price tho.
http://www.derbycycles.com/cgi-bin/e...x.cgi?pid=3521
I am not sure of the shipping price tho.
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You get to a certain point where you kind of need to make a decision, that being, how much tire life are you willing to sacrifice for performance? What I mean is as the stickiness or the tires goes up their lifespan goes down. The PP2ct's and BT-016's are both great, sticky multi compound tires, but neither of them will have near the lifespan of a pilot road. If you ride aggressively at all it could be as little as half the lifespan. If your talking mainly commuter with some mild twisties thrown in those pilot roads would be fine for you. If I'm not mistaken I think theres a Pilot Road 2ct out or coming out now as well. Worst case scenario man is you put them on, test them out and if you don't like them, don't buy them again, they are good enough tires that I hardly think you'd go down due to them not being sticky enough. Unless your a pretty advanced rider most modern tires are going to be better than you are. If the choice is just between those three I'd take the pilots.