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Best regards, AnteK, XTZ 660 Tenere |
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I've gotten allmost 10,000 miles from a Avon Distanzia rear including the Cambell Hwy. in the rain.Works like street tire on pavement,cause that's what it is. In gravel it's O.K. too for me because I don't mind a little dancing. In mud it sucks to the point of being dangerous, cause it's a street tire.
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In china what tire rear for ktm990 please??
:thumbup1: I am curently in china and wore out my pirreli scorpion now on metzler karro but its not that great on tarmac(wearing fast) do you know of a chinese tyre that i could swa for my karro so i can save it for laos 150/70/18 many thanks jake..
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fantastic tyre onroad including wet conditions, no vibrates and very good control. Best Regards |
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Unfortunately, due to a stuff-up by the Turkish dealer I now have a Metzeler Tourance. Looks more like a road tyre to me and the bike oversteers a little, which I don't like. My friend Mesut assures me that this tyre should last even longer. Time will tell... |
Im using Metzeler Sahara 3's on my XT600E.
Good grip on dry roads but they do feel rather "buzzy". They feel slippy and dont give me any confidence in the wet though. Were very good on muddy fields, firetrack and gravel. For road only there is no point, for dirt biast though, the TCK80's are better. |
Anakee ft/rr, good road tires
Tourance ft/rr, good road tires, long lasting Scorpion ST ft/rr, good road tires MT60 rr, a road tire, mileage sux Levorin Dunas rr, a road tire, mileage sux TKC80 ft/rr, great all-round tires, ft is long lasting Mefo Explorer99 rr, reasonably long lasting, good all-round tire Kenda 270 rr, mileage sux, don't like the feel MT21 ft, good on and off road, low mileage D606 rr, good on and off road, low mileage Trail Wing (big bike design) ft/rr, good road tires Trail Wing (midsize bike design) ft/rr, good road tires, resonably long lasting IRC GP110 ft/rr, reasonably long lasting, inexpensive, my favorites all-round tires |
I have Trailwings TW301 and TW302 fitted to one of our bikes and I don't see what warrants all the negative publicity. Why "Deathwings". They last longer then MT21's I've been told, they are comfortable on paved roads, they do their job on gravel. Their pattern is not too different to the factory fitted IRC TR8 tyres specificed for our XR250's with a fairly good "knobbliness". Yes they aren't Deserts but hey, we are on small ligth bikes and only going at low speeds.
I just feel for their price they are definelty value for money...feel free to sling insults and correct me in my ways!!! I have Mitas EO7's fitted to the other bike. Very good on road dry and wet but will be useless in mud as tread to close together although not tested that yet. |
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tt600r tyres
bridgestone bt 45 =tarmac wet/dry great,wet mud/grass crap,hardpack/gravel ok.
bridgestone gritty=tarmac crap,mud/wet grass good,gravel/hardpack ok. |
On my R80gs I used Avon Distanzia's for my 06 trip to follow the Dakar, front was well worn and the back had done 9500miles and less than half worn when I noticed cracking around the blocks (believe there was a bad batch). Not over keen on wet roads but still using distanzia's, on the trip I was carrying a fair bit of gear and I am well overweight! pavement/gravel roads only has I am not prepared to wrestle the bar-steward offroad. The names Ede, not Peter-hansel.
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2000 Africa twin
TKC 80s front and back.. great on road wet or dry, good on dry dirt, fine on soft deep dirt/sand, passable in deep mud (but then the AT is only passable in deep mud, so is it the tyres?) Avon distenzia.. worst tyre on the market.. should be :censored: or at least :ban: xtz600 Pirelli MT21's good on road wet or dry, fine on dry dirt, fine on soft deep dirt, not come across deep mud with them on... drought and all that Michelin baja ... not good on road (not grippy and will vibrate your teeth out), dangerous on wet roads, great on dry dirt, bloody excellent on soft deep dirt/sand, good in deep mud.. they claim to be dual sport.. they are more accurately a dirt tyre that you can ride on the road to the dirt tracks.... |
ive used heidenau k60 enduros so far, they stick like glue to dry roads (had my pillions foot scraping around a round about lol) its a job to loose them in the wet and off road there a fairly competent trail tyre! shame the rears only last about 3-4000km!
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Can't comment on RTW stuff, but the best combination of tyres i've used for a couple of weeks in Morocco on road, off road, everything from rocks to playing in the big dunes on an XR650R is a Dunlop D908RR rear, with a Pirelli MT21 front.
Works well on and off road and lasts. Good all round compromise for me. Michelin Deserts dodgy on road, especially if wet, though great off road. The Dunlop D908RR front is horrible on the road, makes the bike very unstable at speed. Pirelli MT21 rear wears faster off road than the Dunlop D908RR. (Michelin T63 on mates bike work pretty good but front not as good as the MT21). Because the riding is more of 'a mad thrash for a couple of weeks' rather than RTW, off road performance has been higher than ultimate longevity. Also used TKC80's on a KTM 950 on and off road in Europe and very pleased with them. |
I use the Heidenau "Catspaw' trail
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in the wet, on my XT600 and me weighing 140Kg and not an inexperienced loony, I find them a little, well, 'uneasy', they aren't what I call dangerous, but I wouldn't want to push em too far.....:thumbup1: Off Road, Rocks, gravel, Dry Tracks Excellent 10/10 Off Road, Mud, grass, slippy stuff 7/10 Off Road,Dry, Plowed field, sandy about a foot deep ( Don't ask) 4/10 On Road, Dry 11/10 On Road, Wet, 6/10 Martyn |
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