I of the Strom
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About 5500kms into a trip I had some new Tourances fitted in Split, Croatia by a known and respected company (recommended by local bikers) but never really felt at home with them. Now my 1100GS had just clocked 100,000 miles a couple of days before, many of them done on Tourances so I am quite familiar with the combination of these tyres, heavily loaded 1100 and my riding style. They looked different (no manufacturing baubles on the tread pattern area just down the walls towards the rim edge, and plenty fine extra joint/seam material in the tread gullies) and although fitted correctly they sounded different and felt different to me, but I eventually convinced myself I was being paranoid or even just suspicious because they were not fitted by my regular supplier. I did all the usual scrubbing in but felt uneasy on them and after 200 miles had hardly been off the mid tread when hitting my first bit of wet road was straight over the edge of a mountain alpine like pass and saved only by tree from a massive fall into the valley below. It was like being on water over ice, the bike totally out of control just went with the off-camber over and down the mountain coming to a stop 15-20 feet down facing back the way we had come. I believe it hit me and thats what did my shoulder, minimal damage to the bike though.
So anybody else had problems with Chinese Tourances and what are others fitting on their R1100GS's as after many years I feel the need to find an alternative to my once much loved Tourances ?
So anybody else had problems with Chinese Tourances and what are others fitting on their R1100GS's as after many years I feel the need to find an alternative to my once much loved Tourances ?
