Help me choose a tyre...

I got 6.5k out of a rear BT014 (05 ZX6R) and the front was not too bad. I prefer the Pilot Power's as IMHO the 014's lacked feedback and were quite squirmy. But everyone has a different riding style and preferences.....

Whaaat the f**k, what you do to your tyres
I'm on my bike every day, just clocked over 15k ~ 7 months and I ain't no angel on me bike (didn't take long to get rid of the chicken strips), just got down to the little markers in the middle of the tread. Will have to look into getting some new ones soon though as I got a couple more track sessions coming up soon.

i only got 5500k's outta my pilot sport, & i think i'll be pushin 2 get that outta the 012ss

About 3000km's max for me on previous rear Pilot Power, don't know what I will get out of the front.
My Previous Pilot Sports only lasted: 1st 3000km, 2nd 3500km's on rear.
I have about 10700km on bike now & onto my 2nd rear Pilot Power.
The Last Power started to get abit slippery @ Darlington with about 2500km's on it, But it was approx 12months old.

About 3000km's max for me on previous rear Pilot Power, don't know what I will get out of the front.
My Previous Pilot Sports only lasted: 1st 3000km, 2nd 3500km's on rear.
I have about 10700km on bike now & onto my 2nd rear Pilot Power.
The Last Power started to get abit slippery @ Darlington with about 2500km's on it, But it was approx 12months old.

we're so nasty 2 our hoops........ i luv it

I got 6.5k out of a rear BT014 (05 ZX6R) and the front was not too bad. I prefer the Pilot Power's as IMHO the 014's lacked feedback and were quite squirmy. But everyone has a different riding style and preferences.....

Whaaat the f**k, what you do to your tyres
I'm on my bike every day, just clocked over 15k ~ 7 months and I ain't no angel on me bike (didn't take long to get rid of the chicken strips), just got down to the little markers in the middle of the tread. Will have to look into getting some new ones soon though as I got a couple more track sessions coming up soon.

How? I need some help

noob alert : While we are on the subject of tyres - do ppl use different tyres for track days or just go with their daily tyres?

noob alert : While we are on the subject of tyres - do ppl use different tyres for track days or just go with their daily tyres?

All depends on how much money ya got

Depends where your going and what you are doing, if you are a first timer just take your road tyres asuming that there reasonably fresh and not 3 year old arrowmaxes that came on the bike.

We only have champions days in qld now and they have a tyre change guy so I am considering takeing a set of something else along and using them for track tyres and keeping the road tyres for road tyres.

Might stop the plod from arriving at the back of my bike and going while they are examining my rear tyre, I was doing a couple of track days a month.

What sort of bike?

Well I'm not massively worried about wear because i've only got a lil ZZR250 and there's no way I'm going to wear down the rear (excessively) at a track day - I was more concerned about grip and whether or not everyone else is going to have more and constantly be hurrying me up (though I imagine they will anyway the first few track efforts).

Once I move up to a bigger bike I might think more about a separate set of tyres for track work.

look down

Last edited by smek on Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:26 am, edited 1 time in total.

I had bt45's on my zzr and they had plenty of grip for the track. balled up nicely too
would recommend em for the mighty zzr

Yeah I will add my name to the list of satisfied BT45 (previous) users. I had them on my old GSX, my Zephyr, and *that* Gixxer as well. Bloody good tryes for the price, and last fairly well too.