Can only find a price of 185 on the website for the Avons....
1200 GSA TYRES
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Thanks , just ordered, good price 
Delboy777
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PR3s for me atm, brilliant tyres however i got a deal on a pair of PR4s £160 delivered so i bought a pair. They will be going on if the PR3s ever wear out 
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I had Dunlop Roadsmart 3's fitted today; only rode 90 miles home but they felt really nice....time will tell but early signs are v good 
buncobooth
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Just fitted some Pirelli Scorpion Trail II, pretty slimy at first and I didn't like Pirelli's recommended pressures (2.5, 2.9) but now they are scrubbed and at 2.2, 2.5 they feel a lot nicer !
Camel Toe
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Conti TKC70,s for me.....on third set and find them superb in all conditions.....
TKC 70 +1
PR3s for me atm, brilliant tyres however i got a deal on a pair of PR4s £160 delivered so i bought a pair. They will be going on if the PR3s ever wear out
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Thats a great price, my local tyre place quoted £261 a pair fitted to the bike.
Weird that as my experience of them is very different.
Wouldn't use them again. The front wore really weirdly causing a vibration at the front.
Just changed a set of PR4's, 7,500 miles from the rear and 15,000 on the front, no punctures. Brilliant tyres. Now using PR3's as they were at a bargain price, used them before and found them to be very good.
Bendy toy
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I didn't notice any vibration from the front - at least non that was worse than the engine. But the front wear was indeed weird. However the handling was so light I initially thought there must be a problem. They were fab on loose pea gravel, great for back roads and A roads but felt skittish on motorways and duals. They were also rubbish on mud. I decided to do a U turn into a field because the lane was narrow and on a hill. I spent the next 15 minutes trying to pick up the bike. No harm done, but I could not get enough grip under the tyres to lift the bike. It just slid away. I came close to walking away to find help.
I now have Conti Trail Attack 2. High speed they are fab. Back roads they are fab. OK for lanes strewn with gravel down the middle but not nearly as good as TKC-70 for that stuff. They are heavier to turn into bends but not skittish at speed. They will be crap on mud but don't pretend otherwise.
I would have bought the Avons had that offer been available at the time.
Sounds like you had fun
Don't get me wrong the tyres were, for the most part fine. I had them fitted in the USA as the first set were now getting past it as they had done 7.5K
over there and still had about 6K to do and all Santa Rosa BMW had were them so on they went. They did about 6K over there then about another 1k here which left the rear
with still enough tread but a large central flat area without any water clearing grooves and it would spin up under power on wet surfaces which i didn't like.
I was going on a trip to Morocco (came back last week) so i needed to do something (cheap
) about the tyres so i re-fitted the rear Tourance i had previously removedprior to the states trip which i guessed would stay the course (it did, and has now done a total of 8.5k) in Maroc but, i left the front TK70 on as it had good tread depth but
was wearing, as i said, very strangely. This was fine really but the strange wear pattern did cause a vibration which caused the clocks to vibrate all the time which was only
really obvious on the smoother surfaces, it was difficult to discern on rougher surfaces, naturally.
It's for the forgoing reasons i would not fit TK70's again.
Have got a Mitas E07 rear on it's way to me (£64 delivered, bargain) to replace the now on it's last legs Tourance while on the front i have fitted a half
worn heidenau K60 Scout that i had in the workshop. Tyres are too bloody expensive to waste especially when you are knocking in thousands of miles a year
doing trips so i make use of what i have
I've now got 200 miles on the Dunlop Sportsmax Roadsmart 3's (albeit all dry miles)....have to say I'm very impressed with them; I really liked the PR4 trails I had on previously (puncture free) but the wear rate wasn't ideal, simply due to the medium/soft compound mix.
The Roadsmarts 3 have a hard/medium compound mix so this should see a better wear rate - and are a pure road tyre which is what I prefer.
The Roadsmarts 3 have a hard/medium compound mix so this should see a better wear rate - and are a pure road tyre which is what I prefer.
King Key
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Where may I ask did you get them for that price? I'd like to get a set myself. I've been very please with PR4s, used them for general riding, touring and occasional trackday, can't fault them.PR3s for me atm, brilliant tyres however i got a deal on a pair of PR4s £160 delivered so i bought a pair. They will be going on if the PR3s ever wear out
Bendy toy
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Sounds like you had fun
I did and no harm done. A weeks off road training in Wales might help but I doubt it. Devon mud makes wet ice look grippy.
Tyres are too bloody expensive to waste especially when you are knocking in thousands of miles a year
doing trips so i make use of what i have
Dead right.
I'm quite happy to mix & patch part worn tyres. Its never caused any issues. But, when the TKC-70s were done I did swap the pair. The front was still legal but worn so oddly, it wasn't worth keeping.
I needed to move to road tyres hence getting the Trail Attack 2 pair. BTW, they are no way an off-road tyre despite the marketing. Looking at the were rate I may well get two rears to the one front.
Delboy777
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Where may I ask did you get them for that price? I'd like to get a set myself. I've been very please with PR4s, used them for general riding, touring and occasional trackday, can't fault them.
Oponeo online, but they were doing a deal at the time I bought them, might not be doing it now.
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