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Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:35 pm**

Metzeler's M5 Sportec Chicken-Strip-o-Meter: How Man Are You?

By Basem Wasef,

Remember that time you said you were dragging elbows at track day, but the chicken strips on your tires said otherwise?

Metzeler's M5 Sportec tires may boast high silica mixtures and multi-tension steel belts, but the feature sure to get tongues wagging is the hash-marked sidewall, complete with pictograms of varying lean angles (and unspoken insinuations about your willingess-- or lack thereof-- to pitch your bike sideways.)

Do these tires make you want to buy a set just to show off your cornering prowess, or would you rather keep your lean angles vague and undocumented?

http://motorcycles.about.com/b/2010/03/ ... re-you.htm

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:44 pm**

What number are you Blackster?

.....Will take a pick of my metzlers and post tomorrow :kuda:

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:50 pm**

I checked phils M5's at PI.
They didn't have any markings. :-/

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:52 pm**

Disco wrote:What number are you Blackster? .....Will take a pick of my metzlers and post tomorrow

Still on the OEM BT016s, using m5 scale I'm a little embarrassed to admit I sit on the middle nodule where the elephant is depicted.

I dont have the confidence to push that tyre further, hitting the bank sensor for the first time wasn't exactly a happy moment.

The M5's will be my next tyre, perhaps overkill for my riding style at this point. So far the best i've found locally for a pair fitted is $490 for the 6.

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:53 pm**

Bank sensor?

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:54 pm**

blackster wrote:using m5 scale I'm a little embarrased to admit I sit on the middle nodule where the elephant is depicted.

Is that like the elephants bum :lol:

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:55 pm**

Hero Knob? or bank sensor

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:59 pm**

Bank angle bolts on the footpegs.

OEM kwaka parts refer to them as "bank angle sensors".

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:02 pm**

Hero knobs... take em off & grind yer boot

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:04 pm**

those markings are so much cooler than the poxxy 'angel' and 'devil' bullshit on the Pirellis !

if you have no elephant and don't do track days :shock: