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Yep cold tyres and inexperience led to my downfall leaving me more embarrassed than bruised No harm done just thought Id clarify that I still think they're great road tyres despite my clumsiness

Mate, we have all been there, at least you didn't put yourself sailing over a guard rail and into hospital for a week !

fireyrob wrote:Yep cold tyres and inexperience led to my downfall

Hey that's my excuse At least you were more than 200m from your front door and didn't crash into your neighbour

oh dear firey!!!

ive never tried em but it seems pilot road 2s are the go...although you could also try pirelli carsa 3s (hard centre on rear tyre) and you may also want to think about a BT016.. it has a hardish compound in the centre of both front and rear tyres...

FWIW i love the M3s, and im having no trouble with mileage, but then id expect that

I have a half used PR2 for sale if anyone wants it. I had it on my bike but it let go all the time! had to ditch it because they are shit

Ok went to check out tyres today and tyre shop dude suggested Pirelli Stradas, He said he'd been getting alot of dual compound tyres back with the sides ripped to shreds,whilst the hard centre was still like new? He also said Roadsmarts "dunlop" are an economy tyre meaning cheap.

Well i have had a lot of differant tyres metzler m3s michys road and powers,dunlop 208 rr 207rr and if the roadsmarts are cheap and shit then so are the rest of them. The only thing that has worn in the sides before the middle of the tyre is the sides of the front.

I'm presently running Mitchy Road2 on the rear and Power2 on the front. Is probably the most confidence I have ever had in a set of road tyres! OK, it's a zx10 so not exactly a 200Kg bike, and I'm still in the first couple of thousand Km, but I can't fault them as a road tyre. Been good in the wet, great in the dry and plenty of feed back too.