Rear Tyre change

[Valley Boy]

European mountain roads tend to be made of very hard materials to resist the extreme weather conditions and they can become polished and slippery after light rain or dew fall.

I think that this must be the case as i have just come back from a 8 day tour of Bonny Scotland with the missus on the back and have to report that all was well with the tyres!-----------no problems at all !

 

[Time Traveller]

There could have been something else on the road such as diesel, oily tar residue from the Tarmac, fine dust/sand.

My previous GS had Tourances and I had a few moments in Australia and one crash in the wet. This was down to rain after a long hot spell where the type of Tarmac used over there leeches out oil in the 45C heat then goes slick in the first rains.

A mate toured the Rhonda region in Spain and reckoned the dry corners with lethal due to a talc-like layer of fine dust on the roads.

I've pushed Tourances as hard as I can in both wet and dry and they usually give plenty of warning without completely letting go and sliding (unless on gravel).

I agree.

The most lethal roads (UK too) is where there's been a long hot dry spell, then light rain. Everything will slip.

 

[Time Traveller]

Chinese quality control might be variable but Metzler factory quality control won't be no matter what country it's based in.

I agree with that too. The (legit) stuff coming out of china these days is as good as anywhere

 

[Bendy toy]

My bike has Maxxis rubber. Good tread life and no funny moments. SuperMax touring on back is fab. The Detour big trail on front not so good but no worse than others of that style.