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Zed Five

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I've got to replace the rear tyre on my fireblade in the next few hundred miles.

The front's not great either so i'm going to do both.

Has anyone got recommendations (based on good experience) on what brand to go for?

- price no concern, more about good road use (for a sportsbike)

thanks in advance.
 
Best you can afford, depends winter or summer. light weight bike get the best. When I tought high performance allways looked at the outside of the tyre to see if worn how they rode.most middle go for hard if rims sticky. :) :driving:
 
I had BT 010s on my vfr 800 and my gsxr 750 - and I loved them, but there are more modern rubber out there now.
 
For four years 2006-10 I was in the parts department in a bike shop. And of course everyone always wanted the super soft sticky stuff. But then would come in a short time later with only the middle worn down and no marks on the outside edge. It really depends on how you ride your bike. Do you ride hard in the twistys? Or are you a madman from light to light? I have always had great results with the dual compound bridgestone BT012. I ran them on my Z1000 and R1200ST. It was/is a good sport touring tyre.
 
Michelin pure power.

Great reviews on the tyre, compounds, grip etc. I didnt get too many miles on the this yr but they rode very well and very stable when trying to get the knee close to down.

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Unless you ride it like you stole it then full on sports rubber is no bloody use on the road, they require a lot of heat to work anywhere near ther best.To be honest todays sports touring rubber is light years ahead of what you could buy 10 years ago, I'd go as far as to say they are better than tyres some race teams were running 15 years ago.
For example I've had my knee down on one of my bikes fitted with Michelin pilot road 2's and they have been superseaded by the road 3's now.I've also had a couple of sets of Dunlop roadsmarts on another of my bikes with no complaints, they have also been superseaded by the roadsmart 2's. Although I'm not a fan of Bridgestones some of my friends really like the BT23's and Ron Haslam uses them on his race school bikes so can't be that bad.
If you are planning on riding all year round they I have heard very, very good things about the Metzeler Roadtec Z8's wet weather performance.

(both bike's are 1000cc and neither have chicken strips)
 
thanks guys. some good advice. - I don't have chicken strips either, but am looking for an 'above average' tyre that gives confidence in 90% of the weather.

Thanks
 
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