Conti RoadAttack suggestions.

[MK96xj]

I absolutly love the RA's. They have mad stick in the dry and i run them to the side wall regularly. I have only had one time where they slipped in the dry and that was likely due to my grab of too much throttle in a full lean. They slip however was very predictable and ridden out.

In the rain they are OK and i have pushed them to the point of slide just to get an idea of how far they would go. i have about 5K on them now with plenty more milage in them. I run 36 up front and 42 in the rear as specified by Kawi.

The front i have is mounted with the reverse tread as per Conti. I contacted Conti on this before mounting. I posted their comments in my post on the RA's in the past.

My guess is that the ZX14 will eat the rear before the front for the obvious power. But this would likely be the case for any tire.

I will definatly get another set.

The original Dunlops that came on the bike were absolute shit.

Mike

[Req]

I ran RoadATTACK!!!!1111s on my Vstrom 1K when I was using it for solely-pavement running.  I had the tires on for about 7 months and never once had an opinion about them, either for good or bad.  They seemed to be "eh" in every way.  They never dumped me or even slipped, and seemed to hold pretty well even in the wet (and in Seattle winters we have a lot of wet) but they weren't supremely confidence-inspiring the way I remember my Z6s being.  Turn-in was good, better than the Deathwings that were on before, but not great.  They did give the Strom a bit of a wobble at 75+ which was somewhat unnerving, but I suspect that's more a feature of the bike than the tire.

Now that I've gone to Anakees, I'm realizing that the RAs had one really great feature - they completely ignored tar snakes.  Honestly, until I had the Anakees on, I had never even considered avoiding tar snakes while cornering, because the RAs changed not a whit when I hit them.  Anakees, not so much.

edit: you might ping Galo about RAs.  He had a really great experience with them, I believe.

[kevin_stevens]

These original Dunlops that came on the bike were absolute shit. I will definatly get another set.

Mike

I get your intent, but  

KeS

[MK96xj]

I get your intent, but  

KeS

Fix that Thanks. Makes more sense now.

[K2D2]

I would listen to SR's suggestions.  I read his "Super Tramp" tour front to back.  This guy rode practically cross country and has seen some road surfaces.  

But then again, who am I?

[kevin_stevens]

Initial observations:

- Installed a week ago, 3600 miles on the ZX, 36/40psi.

- I haven't gotten them fully scrubbed (busy week), but the right side rear is down to about a quarter inch strip.  It's safe to say at this point that the issue I had with the stock BattleAx BT014s, with the front tire running out of tread before the rear, will not be the case with these tires, as the fronts are nowhere near the tread edge.  No idea what was going on with the Bridgestones, but I'm very pleased to not have to worry about that.

- These tires feel very different front/rear to me.  The front is very stable, stuck everywhere, and has an interesting kind of gyroscopic feel when leaning - it is so very neutral that there is not a particular feel of turn in or indication of lean angle.  The bike feels exactly the same straight up or leaned to any degree.  I like it, but see how some may find it unsettling.

- The rear is less impressive to me, it definitely tells you when the bike is leaned over, and feels somewhat squirmy.  At this point that just may be lack of scuffing and whisker removal; I'll have a better idea next week.

Overall, very comfortable ride, very light-handling tires; I think the front feels neutral rather than the "falling off a cliff" feel others have reported.  Feels very odd front/back, like I have mismatched tires.

More later...

KeS

[Galo]

I had them and replaced the first set with another, that's how much I like them. They wear well under normal conditions (more on this this later),  are soft-riding and I have never lost grip on them, including some very hairy, full-on cutting and thrusting during the last WCRM on Highways 36, 96, 1, et al.

Now, that said, if you push them hard (really hard), they wear pretty quickly.....see pic below of front tire after some 400 miles of hard (I mean HARD) twisties.  This tire left for the WCRM with 5000 miles on it and it was perfect.....doesnt quite look that way after honking a full-loaded Sprint ST for several hundred miles. It looked worse when I got back, after more Highway 36 hooliganism.

Still, this was after almost 6500 miles....

[maddjack]

I still like road attacks best for me,I have a set of Z6's on now,while they are a very good tire ,they are not as good grip wise or wet wise as the RA"S were.Next set will either be another set of the conti's or maybe I will try the new avons.
I agree that if you hammer the RA's they wear a tad quicker,but then again doesn't every tire?