Any body can put up a file in the Files section at
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/bikers_anon/
Create an Excel spread sheet, or simple text file (not everybody has
access to expensive MS software at home).


--- In bikers_anon@..., "Dr. Lachlan Hinds"
<lachlan@d...> wrote:
> Yeah, it's a funny thing. I was speaking to Darryl at Close
Motorcycles on the weekend and he was saying how he had a girl in a
little while ago with a ZX9 running 208's. She wasn't unhappy with
these, but Darryl knew (having a kwaka 1200 himself) that for her
particular bike the Pirelli evo's would suit it better (and they're
in theory a model behind the Diablos - therefore theoretically well
outclassed by the 208's).
> anyway he told her to go ride on them and that if she wasn't happy
after a week, he would fit and replace them with whatever she wanted
FOC. He didn't hear from her so rang and followed it up, and she was
ecstatic with the handling improvement.
> So here's the thing, apart from personal choice and the tyre model
type - there is also how that model performs on your particular bike
(and its suspension set-up). checked the Diablo front - the Pirellis
are 'supposed' to be a squarer cross-section profile, but it was more
triangulated than my 'triangular' 208.
> Other reports from the States I've seen put the AV50 well ahead of
the 208's - on their bikes, and others behind.
> Just gets kinda messy.
> Maybe someone could set up a reference section somewhere for BA
members of what different members thought of different tyres on their
bikes over time. I would get more from that over than a lot of the
mag tests I have seen.
> Just an idea to give someone more work ;-)
> Lachlan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: philsch1 <phil@c...>
> To: bikers_anon@...
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:28 AM
> Subject: [bikers_anon] Re: avon tyres
>
>
> Interesting: In May 2003 "BIKE" magazine the Avon's came out
last.
> Michelin Pilot Sports won the test before Dunlop 208 and Pirelli
> Dragon. I'll bring it along on Thursday if anyone's interested.
>
> Phil
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