changing tyre brands

[Dave48]

anyone had experience of those delightful Cheng Shins they fit as OE tyres to Yamaha YBR 125s? Sort of hard nylon sidewall-reasonable grip on a smooth dry road but in the damp :eek

[nick crisp]

Cheng Shins! My God, those things have been around for donkey's years! (Probably the same ones on the shelves now - been there for 30 years :lol ). I remember when Pirelli Phantoms were THE tyre of choice for larger bikes. I had one on the rear of my H2 - it just shredded them! After a bit of a blast, you could literally peel bits off with your fingers!

[red98]

Tyres have come a loooong way since I started riding bikes, the vast majority of them are much better than back then. These days tyres don't seem to be that bad that they earn nicknames, like Dunlop Ditchfinders and Avon Roadrashers! And I forget which tyre it used to be said of that were Slip On, Slip Offs! I like the PR2s on mine well enough that I have no real desire to look for anything else now, after all, I'm not getting any faster these days :\

ahhhhhhhhhhh....."AVON ROADRUNNERS".....i remember them well,the only tyre to have back in the 70`s 80`s




depends on your budget and what your doing with them when it comes to tyres.......dunlop, bridgestone if moneys a bit tight,good tyres at a good price....if you`ve got a bit more cash go for the pr`s......got them on the thou and very impressed  [size=78%] [/size]

[Punkstig]

anyone had experience of those delightful Cheng Shins they fit as OE tyres to Yamaha YBR 125s? Sort of hard nylon sidewall-reasonable grip on a smooth dry road but in the damp :eek

Cheng Shin are Maxxis tyres, same company!

[fireblake]

Are Maxxis remoulds, i seem to remember being told this when they first came out?
Chen Shin, i put a proper Knobbly on the back of my XL250s. That bugger never worried me as i was to stupid to be worried. The liberties i took with it. The Knobbly cubes were all misshaped with bits of rubber hanging off. A mate following said the back of the bike was out of line with the front, i taught McCoy all he knew.


Mickey the bullshitter, well only the McCoy bit

[Frosties]

[quote author=Yamazer-92 link=topic=9075.msg90355#msg90355 date=1374776414]
I put Metzeler Z8 interacts on mine recently front and rear and there was a very noticeable difference handling wise. I have never scraped anything on the bike before or on any of my old bikes but now if I'm being a bit silly I scrape the pegs and have even scraped a bit off my side stand because my bike doesn't have the footpeg blobby bits. I would thoroughly recommend them, got tyre of the year 2012 and are great in the rain too. Cheaper than PR3.

I'm on the Metzeler Z6. Front one went on last Autumn, matching rear last month. Would have liked to try the Z8's, but weren't in stock when I recently had a puncture (and were an extra £30 for the rear).
Found them great, much better than the old Dunlops that were on before (but they came with bike, so were getting on a bit). Well worth checking out either way.
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Metzeler Z6 here also, can't fault them but like it's been said, everyone rides differently....


Had BT21's on when I bought the bike and will never use again due to the irregular wearing.


You pays your money as they say - good luck fella.