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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: best tires for wet
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:02:49 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <1ei2ipINNoap@morrow.stanford.edu>
- References: <Nov.18.17.08.58.1992.159@presto.ig.com> <1egqh9INN7eg@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- Keywords: street vs dp
-
- In article <1egqh9INN7eg@fido.asd.sgi.com> spencer@hailwood.asd.sgi.com
- (Paul Spencer) writes:
- >steve@presto.ig.com (Steve Barnhouse) says:
- >> Which tire is best for wet slippery paved roads?
- >
- >Metzeler is the best rain tire maker, by far.
-
- They work fine in the wet for me, too.
-
- >Don't worry about rear traction; the front is your big concern. Losing the
- >back end is exciting; losing the front end hurts.
-
- Try not losing the front end when the rear end decides it
- wants a turn in front because you weren't worrying about
- rear traction! Use good tires on both ends. Use your head.
-
- >I wouldn't mix DP and street tires, and I know little about their traction
- >on pavement relative to a street tire; but a ME33/ME55 or ME33/ME88 com-
- >bination works VERY well in the wet.
-
- When five of us went on our "The outlook is promising" tour
- last November (starting in a downpour, continuing on 300
- more miles of wet/twisty, redwood-needle bestrewn roads) I
- think there were three bikes with Metzelers, one with
- Pirelli DP tires, and one with I-don't-remember-what-tires.
- None of us had much trouble with traction, even at speeds
- that were surprisingly brisk for the conditions.
-
- Tire technology has come a long way over the past twenty
- years.
- --
-
- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
-