so last night i blew my tire because it was shot anyways, so i figure ill get a new tire and slow **** will be much smoother...WRONG, with my old tire i can slow em down, scrape, etc. but today on a brand new dunlop it felt like the bike wanted to fall to the right everytime??? im running like around 10 psi. does anyone else have this problem with new skins or is it just me???

 

i hate that **** !! when i get a new set of tires(take offs from ebay) it jacks up my highway and p-lot **** until i get in a lil time and maybe a burn out or two..no matter the psi for me i have wear that hump down in the middle and then it's all good till the next set...lol !!! and im not as "good" with a 180 so i roll 190 at abut 25 on the street and 15-20 or so in the parkin lot !!

 

Back in 2003 everyone used to do a burnout to "flatten out" new tires. Now everyone has better skills and it isn't a problem.

 

Try stuntin on race tires!

 

just ride with it for a while you will be fine....

 

New tires are the worst!!!!!! Junk *** tires are by far a better buy. Race take off's are ****. Bald *** tires with no center are my fav.

 

Once you get good you will realize that new tires are the best... (once scrubbed in of course).

They have the most meat on em so they're nice and round... nice for easy turn in... and predictable mid-circle (especially on faster ones).

And the dude runnin 10 psi !?!?!?!?

Crank that **** up to at least 20 bro... don't learn the wrong way then it's just gonna be that much harder when you have to re-learn everything w/ higher psi.

30 front/25-30 rear

 

I just had a pp put on my gix and all my wheelies fall off to the right...but its only been a cpl days, just needs to wear to my style.

 

oddly enough, i just put a 208GP race tire on mine, brand new, and it drops hardcore to the right. i've never had problems before on mine and now its crazy drop it. i have to literally THROW the bike into a left circle....i can't ride a straight slow wheelie on it right now. no idea what's wrong with it. tire alignment is perfect, actually didn't change from my last tire. so far i'm not liking the GP tires.

 

10 psi??
are you serious??

 

guys from CT are coming out of the woodwork these days...i dont see you anywhere and is that 954 the one you sold to pat (trick)?

 

I hate that ****, I threw on a supercorsa race tire and after one ride spooned it off because it fell so far into a circle that all it would have been good for would have been something like 70 kph circles. I find used street tires that have been worn in the middle.

holy tonque twister!

 

As said by someone above..... Race tires SUCK. I've had same experience w/ supercorsa race rears...

It's something to do w/ their sidewall construction.

 

ya, it has to be cause it's killin me.

the last tire i had was a dunlop 207 old school tire and it was brand new when i put it on, worked great.

 

run higher pressure like 17-25psi:YEAH

 

runnin the sport touring tires is nice cuz they stay consistant. theyre already flatter in the middle than a sport tire so no break in time and theyre stiffer so they dont fold when u dip into circles and you can do burnouts for days on em with little wear. i usually run dunlop 220's for the rear but im gonna try a pilot road next cuz ppl seem to like them. i run like 20 to 25lbs rear with this tire and i m 150lbs.

 

bought a dunlop qualifier, so far not a big fan...

 

I'm running 20 psi on a new tire... it pulls a little to the right but not to bad

 

haha thats all i ride on.. a guy from the local shop sells me his used race tires for 20 bucks.. cant beat it.. took me a little bit to get use to but if you have the psi set right its not that bad

 

i loved mine.. they're really flat compared to metzler and pirellis