16-12-12, 11:08 AM
In terms of the two tyres, night and day to me. I went into my local dealer (Watling Tyres) for a new front and back some months ago, with the intention of getting Pilot Road 3's. I'd run PR2's before and liked them, although at the time I was coming from power pure's (the weather was turning colder, and I wanted a wet and colder weather performer on). The nice man in the shop convinced me that I should be getting Bt23's (sell more of these that any other, used in Ron Haslam race school, customers swear by them etc), and if I really didn't like them, they'd swap them back off.
I'd barely had four miles on them when I went back the first time. I told them that the lazy profile felt like I was turning through jam. Whereas before, it was simply think and turn, always being where I wanted, the Bridgestones needed conscious effort to turn. Any tyre you swap to after your track oriented Power Pure's will feel heavy sir, he said, run them for a few days, and see what you think then. I ran then for about 4 days, 400 miles, and then went back again. I find their turning wooden and heavy. I couldn't
much comment on their wet\cold handling, as any manoeuvre was dominated by the heavy turn. When I got them back, the nice man put his hand on the very hot tyre (the weather was pretty cold) and said that they'd clearly been gripping well as I must have been wanging it to get them that hot, but even if that's the case, they didn't feel confident.
The PR3's were put on and off I went. Hardly got down the road... Bloody fantastic. Turn was bang on again, once run in, they grip like no other wet tyre I have ever had. They really are light years ahead. Warm up is extremely quick. Best tyres I've ever run.
I'd barely had four miles on them when I went back the first time. I told them that the lazy profile felt like I was turning through jam. Whereas before, it was simply think and turn, always being where I wanted, the Bridgestones needed conscious effort to turn. Any tyre you swap to after your track oriented Power Pure's will feel heavy sir, he said, run them for a few days, and see what you think then. I ran then for about 4 days, 400 miles, and then went back again. I find their turning wooden and heavy. I couldn't
much comment on their wet\cold handling, as any manoeuvre was dominated by the heavy turn. When I got them back, the nice man put his hand on the very hot tyre (the weather was pretty cold) and said that they'd clearly been gripping well as I must have been wanging it to get them that hot, but even if that's the case, they didn't feel confident.
The PR3's were put on and off I went. Hardly got down the road... Bloody fantastic. Turn was bang on again, once run in, they grip like no other wet tyre I have ever had. They really are light years ahead. Warm up is extremely quick. Best tyres I've ever run.
I can put three hundred letters in here? Really? I can dump this much crap at the bottom of each and every post and reply that I do, and there not a stinking thing you can do about it. I can also put in a picture you say? My my, aren’t we generous with the space all of a sudden. This won’t last