Michelin pilot sport 6’s

[botus]

had a thought - maybe the numbers on a photo of the sensors are not the valid ID you need to write to the bike?

 

[mpgscott]

had a thought - maybe the numbers on a photo of the sensors are not the valid ID you need to write to the bike?

Could be, I think I need the wake up tool to confirm.

Ive asked the folk I bought them off as well..

 

[mpgscott]

I just read he reccos his own dongles - so the old UCSI2000 - which does everything on a BM but hates toyota - or the current UCSI2100 - which is now considered by the car nuts as one of the best BMW comms devices out there - or ODBlink LX or MX - on the ODBLink ones I'd go for the sillier money MX+

youtube arguing - review of the adapters made by the same lot that make motoscan

Dam it, i dont have an android phone, all bloody iPhones with us.

 

[botus]

Dam it, i dont have an android phone, all bloody iPhones with us.

yep that's pain - I have to have an another android phone just to run Motoscan

His UCSI adapters work with windows apple or android - but he's never done the iphone app and i don't think he ever intends too - its will run on old android systems so you can easily get one good enough for not much

 

[TLSgazza]

those tyres are serious money - how's it feel ?

I find road tyres can make for some strange changes in the front end feel of the GS telelever setup

the world has moved away from the UK Dunlop stiff sidewall fronts - that was once what all Bike tyres had. It remained normal with the road smart RS1, RS2 or RS3 - These days we have a big change - It was there on the earlier Pilot 3 and now the RS4 - its where we have the USA style, understeer wins attitude (so long as the software and super glue compound is new). But for me this mushy fexi stuff feels super weird on my 57 plate GS

I waited 4 years (with covid) to try the RS4 and it lasted less than a week - so dangerous back on the RS3...
Long posts of me being shouted at re this on here, but it doesn't stop the facts... the Gist was

the Original Metzerler Tourance - gave by far the best steering feel of any I have tried - but provided zero grip, and no reassurance it would ever do its job
I tried a Bridgestone BT23 and it was wild - so heavy at low speed and went from under, over, under, oversteer more times than you could imagine in a single corner
Dunlop RS1 - safe, more grip than either of the others - but flexi forks on high speed direction changes
Mich PS3 like the Bridgestone, lots of tyre pressure got the thing safe enough to ride - but spent most of the 4k miles I had it with the back wheel 2 foot in the air
Dunlop RS2 miles better and safer than any above - and you could go far faster - as the back wheel stayed where its meant to under braking
Dunlop RS3 almost normal
Dunlop RS4 all the nightmares of the BT23 came back to kill me
Second RS3 rides OK unless cold , serious doubts it has any grip below 5C - this winter front was doing random can't be bothered tricks in slow speed stuff
Dunlop TrailMax Meridian - odd name but seems normal - makes you wonder if the road stuff behaves on a GS the way 5 out of those 6 did - don't meddle

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Original tourances providing zero grip.
Fuck me you must be riding in BSB.
I have ridden almost all if 150.000 miles on original tourances except for a few trips on TKC80's off road.
I have never felt the need for more grip. So consequently I have not felt the need to "upgrade" to another tyre.
They are great tyres and also give really good rates of wear.

Yesterday I was out with a group of friends
Xr1000
K1300
1250gs
V4 tuono
H2sx
On the B road route I was leading them on to a local cafe I was way in front of all of them so I'm not a driving miss daisy type either.
I had to wait at every junction for them.
Maybe I should find some better tyres to leave them further behind.

 

[mpgscott]

So far tyres have been through some pretty bad rain in western isles, however today the rear got a puncture from a stone! Yes a sharp small stone but it didn’t ride a lot to push the stop go tool through in comparison to other tyres.

So can’t say after less than 300 miles and it’s had a puncture from a bloody stone.

I’m going to contact Michelin as no way should that happen.

Great grip and ride, poor robustness..

 

[Slipperyeel]

Can't believe people are still using those Tourances? Style over function. And they square off in no time. So many better options out there

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[botus]

So far tyres have been through some pretty bad rain in western isles, however today the rear got a puncture from a stone! Yes a sharp small stone but it didn’t ride a lot to push the stop go tool through in comparison to other tyres.

So can’t say after less than 300 miles and it’s had a puncture from a bloody stone.

I’m going to contact Michelin as no way should that happen.

Great grip and ride, poor robustness..

I had a set of goodyears (3 somethings) on my car 20 plus years back, got 5 punctures within 6 months - as the corners rounded off on the tread block they became normal - somehow the tread seemed to kick road debris up in a way that made it impregnate the tread - wrote to goodyear, they couldn't even be bothered to write back