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Posted: 21:35 - 17 Apr 2017 Post subject: |
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Gets covered here on a regular basis.
Consensus appears to be the current crop of sportstouring tyres from the big names are all quite good with the PR2/3/4 being some of the most liked on BCF.
Some tyre manufacturers offer their ST tyre range with different constructions so if your main riding is 2up with luggage check them out. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
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Do not go for BT021s. Commonly known to be an appalling tyre with very weird wear characteristics. This is not the first time recently these have been mentioned here on BCF as a possible choice, but surely they must have stopped making these ages ago, as they were first manufactured donkey's years ago?
+1 for PR series.
Recently read of someone who liked a PR3 on the front, PR4 on the rear of his Fazer 1000. Reckoned it turned in a bit quicker than having both PR4s, but with better wear rate than a 3 on the rear. Very subjective things are tyres though.
I'm going to be doing several thousand miles in Europe from end of May, and will start with a new set of PR4s. I expect to get somewhere in the region of 6000 miles from them on my own Fazer 1000. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Both of the OP's suggestions are old-spec now.
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Enduro Numpty wrote: |
"GT" is usually moulded on a touring version of a particular tyre and may or may not claim to offer better mileage or dual compound rubber. Sometimes you can see the different rubber but as far as I'm concerned it's just different coloured and makes no significant difference to wear rates. As you would imagine you will pay more for the "GT" tyre. |
I had a really interesting chat about GT tyres with my tyre shop for the Wales trip on my Divvy 900 a couple of years back. Anybody who has seem me ride to and from the BBQ will attest to how much weigh I pile on the bike.
With BT023s the GT version has exactly the same rubber as the standard 023 but a stiffer sidewall and general construction to cope with higher weights, a heavy bike on standard rubber can deform the tyre making cornering slow and potentially unpredictable, or require undesirably high pressures to handle properly (inflating beyond the recommended maximum).
In my case I was expecting to do a 1000 or so miles with very high weight on the bike, but otherwise I generally used the bike for commuting solo. They recommend I ran high pressures to cope with the extra weight, in their opinion it'd cope with up to 50psi safely enough so recommended I basically load the bike up and sit on it and inflate to the point that it no longer deformed the tyres horribly.
The trade off with GT tyres is less feel apparently, and for me with it being less than 10% of the tyres life being being spent with that much weight on board, they said it simply wasn't worth the difference.
For what its worth I'm a massive BT023 fan, I put a brand new pair on my current Fazer 600 this time last year and have done over 11,000 miles since then, the back has loads of life left, but the front is getting close to the mark now and needs changing soon. ~12,000 miles tyre life is more than good enough in my books! ____________________ I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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