13-10-13, 03:32 PM
(12-10-13, 07:19 PM)Gingernutz link Wrote: When I changed my BT023s last time I wanted something different because of road noise in the front. I stumped up £280 for a pair of pilot road twos. I thought I had been had but just worked out I got 18000 miles out of them. I am kind on tyres but that is ridiculous. They were very squared by the end but still grippy and road legal. I've swapped them for Pilot Road 3s at an eye watering £303 fitted but reckon these might be the last tyres the bike will ever have at that rate. Thread pattern is weird and obviously still need riding in but hoping for big things in the wet this winter. Anyone else on them?
£303 a set? :eek
Next time I suggest you take off your hi-viz vest before heading to the tyre shop, that way they won't see you coming....
As for PR3s being the same compound as PR2s, can't see how it can be the same, as the PR3s I'm currently running are lasting far far longer than the PR2s I had on it before.
In fact I don't really see the point in not getting PR3s instead of PR2s as not only are they much better in the wet, but looking at the prices at my local tyre shop - FWR, although they initially cost 11.5% more to buy, they are lasting at least 50% longer, so in reality are working out a lot cheaper.