Follow-Up Tire Question
Ernest Montague
afm199 at earthlink.net
Sun Jun 8 16:21:43 PDT 2008
When I switched to Dunlop I had a year of hell and chattering front
end, revalved twice, and finally went back to Pirelli and all the
problems magically disappeared.
On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Randy Grein wrote:
> Eh, yeah, what he said. But in Pirelli you'll generally want the blue
> (soft) front and a green (medium) rear. You'll pay more though; I've
> been considering a change to Bridgestones just because of the cost.
> However, Tom did say quick turnin - that's a Dunlop. The profile is
> more angular giving quicker turnin, but the carcass is stiffer so you
> need to setup the chassis and suspension to suit. A bike set up to
> handle well with Pirellis will likely chatter quite badly using
> Dunlops, and you'll likely wash the tire at the inflection point.
>
> Randy Grein, WMRRA #41
>
> On Jun 8, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Ernest Montague wrote:
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