Continental - Trail attack or Road attack?

I will need new tyres soon.

I note that the Continental Road Attack tyres have been well received.

Some of the threads also refer to the Continental Trail Attack tyres.

I quite like the Trail Attacks chunky looks but has anyone got them and better still has anyone any comparison between the two?

Cheers

JR

yep used both and now use trail attacks, they are 150% for me. road attacks seemed a bit twitchy on the front to me, i have got 6500 on mine now and apart from a squared off rear theres loads left yet.

Afraid I can't give a comparison, but I do have trail attacks fitted and quite like them. On my second set now, first set did 8,000 miles before a puncture forced me to get a new set.
Give good grip (even in this weather) and seem to be capable of lasting for around 10k miles+ it seems. Good road tyres that saw me through some right horrible gravel roads in Romania as well.
Am tempted to try something different next time to get a comparison, but for now I have no complaints with them!

had battlewing on my 1200 first, found they flatten off before they wore out.......got road attack now and i'm very impressed with them, good road tyre.......they seem to drop into a corner better and make for a smoother ride.........done 7/8k on them and still got loads left on them......not had any oh shit moments....will defo use them again....good road fed back off them as well...........

I have a trial attack rear, with a tourance front, great combination, though it wont last as long as the tourance rear, not used the road attacks on the gs, but have on a couple of other bikes, my vfr still has them and I did not like the front

I've not had a set of trial attacks but have run two sets of road attacks and am very impressed by them.

I work on the basis of the right tyre for the right situation, so don't use dual purpose i.e. tourances, battlewings etc for road riding - I go for purely road biased rubber and it suits me grand, but others will disagree.

My advice would be think of your riding situation, think of your tyre! If you wanna ride a bit of gravel fit the trail attacks, if ya wanna ride road fit the road attacks. And if ya wanna ride both....well ride something a bit cheaper...the repair bills will be cheaper

But seriously its a bit of sound advice given to me and its served well, just try and run a set of dual purpose on a track day and you'll know all about it.

Cheers
Johnny

I rode my klv1000 with both road attacks and trails, very similar, excellent, huge lean angles even in the wet, the road attacks wore quickly though due to the weight whereas the trail attacks had 8000 on them and there was loads of meat left. For the price £140 i paid. Absolutely bargain.

But then tyre choice is a personal thing, everyone will always say one is better than another. Most modern tyres are all very good.

Has anyone tried Mich Pilot Road2 on a GS/ADV?
Did a lot of miles on K1200GT and was very pleased with them.

Continental has tried to combine grip with high mileage on their Trail Attack. They 'bake' the same rubber at different temperatures, so that shoulders are soft for grip and central pattern is hard for mileage. I've driven Conti's Trail Attack for 13500km, and there's still some thread left. The high mileage is comparable to Tourance, but Tourance is built for stability, Conti's TA is more fun to drive in twisties.

This all seems promising, but still I'm not overly impressed with these tyres (except for mileage). From the beginning, the rear has slided away a couple of times, in twisties, where there was no clear cause (roads not slippery).
I've read on here that these tyres don't warm up fast, so perhaps that's why.

Anyway, this never happened with my other tyres. For statistics : with identical tyre pressures, and suspension setup, and while my behaviour hasn't changed in comparison to riding on Anakee, Battlewing, Tourance.

What's worse : depending on how many twisties you do, the shoulders wear faster than centre, leaving an awkward wearpattern.





Usually, when tyres wear, they flatten, but the crossover to the shoulder is round. Not so with these tyres. What you're left with is a more or less bumpy ride, and a loss of grip, exactly when you need it.

Since I'm only interested in grip, not mileage, I won't be buying these tyres again. I realise that others may have better experiences. But if you search posts, you'll find others with similar experiences.

GSband said:

This all seems promising, but still I'm not overly impressed with these tyres (except for mileage). From the beginning, the rear has slided away a couple of times, in twisties, where there was no clear cause (roads not slippery).
I've read on here that these tyres don't warm up fast, so perhaps that's why.


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Maybe you've got a dodgy pair???
I too am more inerested in grip than wear rate and have found these to be the ONLY tyres I've used that haven't let go when exiting a corner (I've tried metz enduro, exp, old tourance, deathwings, metz sahara and TKC's)
I've also found them to offer more grip in the cold and wet than anything else.
I'm on my second set and have not seen the odd wear pattern shown on your rear

PIGGLET said:

Maybe you've got a dodgy pair???
I too am more inerested in grip than wear rate and have found these to be the ONLY tyres I've used that haven't let go when exiting a corner (I've tried metz enduro, exp, old tourance, deathwings, metz sahara and TKC's)
I've also found them to offer more grip in the cold and wet than anything else.
I'm on my second set and have not seen the odd wear pattern shown on your rear

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me too, mine are worn but not like that?i find mine very good, grip wise and touring wise, where they are lipping up doesnt look that far round the tyre to affect grip

It seems we have exact opposite experiences...
I did the Pyrenees last summer, went by boat (Portsmouth-Bilbao) and back by train (Narbonne-Düsseldorf), so lots of twisties, not so much highway...