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Pilot road 4...
They sound like "Pschhhhhhhhhhhhh..........." oh bollocks !
Pilot road 4...
Just changed from Karoo 3's which sounded like a duff bearing from 30mph onwards
Now on Avon trailriders - almost silent up to 70mph
Feel the road surface and catseyes more than the Karoo's but grip is great in the dry,
not explored the wet potential yet, can't say the thought of lobbing 250KG of bike into a wet
corner is appealing
Started with Anakee 3's then Bridgestones now on Tourance. At last a quiet tyre on a GSA LC ! Cheap as chips too at M&P
I can't say I've ever heard road noise for any tyre on any bike I've owned, I didn't think it was a bike thing - only cars?
james
All modern tyres are good
Untrue, the OEM Dunlops on my Africa Twin are shocking in wet weather
Trail smarts are a good tyre for err trails? You want a wet weather Road tyre buy one.
Have you fell off? Well then I suggest they are good enough.
Adventure bike with trail tyres will be good err adventuring off the beaten track.
If they are that bad why are they still on the bike? Because they aren't Bad, they are just not amazing.
Do people no longer buy tyres based on performance rather than noise? FFS
There is certainly a bit of tyre noise from the Anakee 3 , however , I am sold on them
Went ,Scotland to the nkapp on a new set of rules Tourance in June, the rear Tourance was shot about 2/3 way back south in Norway.
Managed to get an A3 rear , it has done ,back home and has now run down to Greece n back and it looks like it still has many thousands left in it.
All that AND it works well on the GSA , seems to me quite good tyre so ,quite prepared to accept an extra wee bit of back ground sound
Anakee 3s noisy, PR4s not as noisy, but an LC does seem transmit quite a bit of noise from the front.
No, I have not fallen off the bike. Thanks to modern day electronics, the traction control system has saved most of the major slides. The fact that the traction control has activated several times on the three occasions that I have ridden the bike in the wet and that the TV on my GSA has not activated in the 18,000 miles tells me that the Dunlops are not performing as well as I would expect from a modern bike. The reason they are still on the bike is that it has covered 595 miles since collecting it less than two weeks ago, so I needed time to assess the capabilities of the package.
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