04-05-14, 12:13 PM
(03-05-14, 10:59 PM)stevierst link Wrote: [quote author=johna6968 link=topic=12889.msg146208#msg146208 date=1399152365]Now that's wierd, the sport tyres are supposed to be quite good, because certain race schools use them with a lot of success.
Yup Supermaxx.. Bizarrely Mate had a set of Maxxis sport similar time and couldnt wait to bin them too..
I can't say I've used them though, they're quite soft and wouldn't last me 5 minutes. I only get 2500 ish out of s/t tyres!!!!
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Must admit I quite liked the Maxxis supersports, although not their lifetime (I got about 2000 miles out of the rear on my ZX9R, and it was completely shagged). In the dry, they were good and sticky, and weren't too bad in the wet either, unless you tried to lean the bike over too far as there just wasn't any tread on the edge of the tyre. CHap before me hadn't ever had the bike that far over judging from the chicken strips, and the first time I leant it over in the wet, with no tread, on a new bit of tyre, and then tried to accelerate led to the biggest slide I think I've ever had - ended up somehow catching just enough of the weight on my knee to keep it sliding until I managed to get it upright and it regripped!