Best tyres for Adventure, road use only...

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My 58 Adventure is going in for some warrantee work next week, and having a pair of tyres fitted whilst its at BMW.

Bit confused as to whats best? :confused:

Bike will never see off road, just touring and the summer commute to work.

Im looking at getting a pair to give to BMW to fit, rather than having to pay dealer prices.

Any help appreciated. :)

Ian.
 
Ian

Loads of tyre posts if you search the threads. Tourance remain highly rated by lots of people although I am not a fan. I prefer battlewings although milage not great. Had a friend try BT020's as a pure road tyre and hated them!
 
Ian 1200 GS Adventure said:
My 58 Adventure is going in for some warrantee work next week, and having a pair of tyres fitted whilst its at BMW.

Bit confused as to whats best? :confused:

Bike will never see off road, just touring and the summer commute to work.

Im looking at getting a pair to give to BMW to fit, rather than having to pay dealer prices.

Any help appreciated. :)

Ian.
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I use the Metzeller Tourance typres on my 1200GSA, just make sure that you use have teh standard ones as they last longer. I generally get in excess of 12,000 from teh rear and i only have road miles or 100 or so a day. Only donw side is that they are a bit noisy
 
One of the mags did a massive test of all tyres for GS/GSA last year.

The Dunlop 607s won.

I replaced my OE Anakees with a set and they were brilliant.

Even handled well around the Nurburgring.
 
You'll never get people to agree on a tyre, a lot depends on your riding style. I love Tourance, when fully run in, but never get more than 6k from a rear. I also like the Anakee, but hated the Battlewing. Don't like the look of a true road tyre on the GS (shite excuse, but true !!!).

Good luck!
 
Avon Azaro on the front, an Avon Storm on the rear. - That 'won'* the DiRE test last year. And Avon's do it for me 'cos they have a 'warranty' where if you get a puncture within the first 1mm of wear they'll replace the tyre for free!

If you're going to buy tyres 'for the look' then buy the best looking ones - they're all much of a muchness, performance wise, unless you really press on - and if you do then you'd know what's a good tyre and what isn't from experience.

Maxxis have now started importing to the UK and their Supermax tyres look good to me -
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*It was the best tyre, but the rear de-laminated (really unfortunate for Avon) so DiRE disqualified it. Tyre delamination happens - just like brake pads delaminate and 1200 fuel pumps go (only tyres go much, much less regularly)
 
Anakee 2's do it for me :)

GSmonkey (above) has got it right though, what one person likes another will hate, its down to personal choice.
 
Until now I've been through the awful OEM Bridgestone Battlewings, the Anakees 2 and the Conti Trail Attacks on my 08 Adventure. So far, the best tires for road use only, have been , by a significant margin ... the Pilot Road 2 rear / Pilot Road front combo. I will use nothing else on my machine.
 
Ian 1200 GS Adventure said:
Im even more confused now! lol!:)
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Exactly,just like I was last year.

I just decided to go with the Dunlop 607s as they beat all others in a side by side test,including Anakees,Tourances,Battlewings etc etc.


I certainly wasn't disappointed with them.

Much better feel and handling to Anakees.

Still had loads of tread left after nearly 3000 miles on them when I traded the bike in.

But you will get 15 people telling you that 15 tyres are the best.
 
The Dunlops are the best 'dual purpose' tyre by a long margin IMHO. They will, however, move around a little bit at high speed when fully loaded up - nothing scary though.

For a pure road tyre I'm another big fan of the Avons. Very neutral, smooth ride and quick turn in with loads of grip wet & dry.

NB Im not bothered about how long a tyre last rating grip and feel as more important for me but both of the above tyre last about 4000 miles for me.

Andres
 
Big Lee said:
Or continental trail attacks, despite the name is really a road tyre ;)
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TBH I've never really understood the general "better grip" comments - you've either got grip or you haven't - in which case you crash. But just applying basic O-Level Physics (more tyre footprint = more cornering ability) I had a set of Continental Road Attacks fitted last week to my 1150 GSA - previously had Tourances. So far I've been pretty impressed with them; in fact last Sundays ride was one of the best I've had. Now, it could be psychological / luck etc I don't know.

The only question mark I have with them is how long are they likely to last? When feeling the tyre after a sensible run (ie not too daft, but not hanging around either) it felt "stickier" to the touch than the previous Tourances. Good news obviously for cornering, but probably not so good news for durability.

Time will tell though, but so far I'm very happy with them. :thumb2
 
Never see off road? Is that because, like I was, you are worried about the size of the beast / your current off road skills? I have recently discovered the fun to be had on even the lightest and easiest of trails.

TKC 80's & Dirt.
 
Trail Attacks - Great

Done 6.5k on mine now and still plenty of tread left,
 
Arsey said:
One of the mags did a massive test of all tyres for GS/GSA last year.

The Dunlop 607s won.

I replaced my OE Anakees with a set and they were brilliant.

Even handled well around the Nurburgring.
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How many miles have you got out of them chap (or was the 3000 miles all you've done on them?)?
Slowdown said:
If you're going to buy tyres 'for the look' then buy the best looking ones - they're all much of a muchness, performance wise, unless you really press on - and if you do then you'd know what's a good tyre and what isn't from experience.
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Not strictly true that is it?
If someone presses on but has only ridden lesser marques before they probably wont have the experience to know what works well on a lardy arsed beemer, and hence ask for advice here.

Taff said:
TBH I've never really understood the general "better grip" comments - you've either got grip or you haven't - in which case you crash.
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Better feel/feedback would be more accurate.
All the grip in the world doesn't matter if you are just relying on luck to tell you were the limit of it lays rather than the tyre telling you exactly what's going on.
Most modern tyres have an excess of grip for normal road riding (for obvious reasons) but some provide better feel than others.
 
Thanks for the replies, have ordered some Conti Trail Attacks, £155 far a pair off Ebay. They seem to have very good reviews:aidan
 
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