£215 for Road2's?

Fit & balanced, sound good?

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

Sounds like a description of the perfect woman.

 

<sigh>

What sizes? What bike are they for? Etc etc...

 

fit AND balanced

whew, that's a tall order

 

I have spouted about them, but to be fair, you & a few others where off
breaking laws

190/50 & 120/70 K1200S

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

Just what I was thinking! Not sure I've ever met one...

 

Well, I'm not sure about a lardybus like the BMW, but I have a new
favourite sports tyre - the Dunlop Qualifier RR. Fabulously grippy
wet or dry, perfect steering characteristics, and plenty of mileage
left after 2000 hooligan miles.

 

everywhere except car parks.

 

The sport2's are just about doing 2000 miles, granted they get the shit
hammered out of them, but nowhere near what you will have done to yours...

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

I should have added "when warm"

 

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

<saved>

 

Having see both of you ride I'd guarantee you won't get the same
mileage out of a tyre as Champ does.

You rag the bike everywhere you can, in particular when you're
accelerating away from slower speeds whereas he tends to go a lot
easier on the gas then once the speed is up there he just maintains
it without going for much higher speeds between corners.

I really like the Qualifier RRs and for fast road riding they're
better than anything I've ridden on before. I had them on the bike for
last years Manx and nothing went past me on the mountain section and
the new ones were warmed up and worn almost to the edges within 10
miles of them being fitted.

Ok, I highsided the bike and that probably wouldn't have happened on
a harder compound tyre (1) but shit happens and I've said from the
start that it was my fault and I'm not blaming tyres, damp, oil,
sabotage or **** all else.

(1) A harder tyre would still have slid but it wouldn't have grabbed
as viciously when it did get hold and the worst case would probably
have been a low-side slide up the car park.

 

Andy Bonwick wrote:

Busted I just love it! One tutor at rally coaching told me I had less
mechanical sympathy than a blast furnace

It's not cost as such for me, i use my bike a lot, even doing 2000m a week
(like this week) I can't be fucked getting them changed every ten days

Shit happens Andy



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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

As Andy says - I'm actually fairly easy on tyres.

 

Me too. I just got 5000 miles out of a rear BT015 on the GSXR and the
front is still going strong.

This is a mix of steady motorway and short 100 mile blasts ridden in a
similar style to Andy describes of you. I may not be a quick as you
and Bonwick, but you know I don't hang around. It was only the
trackday at Donington that finally finished it off.

 

These tyres feel bloody great after the last set of fucked ones!

Nice feeling.

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

Nige can break a bike first time out given the opportunity

Paul.

 

True!

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

And sell all the bits on eBay before getting home, right?