Well I finally stretched her legs yesterday. I have been on leave, then with all this rain, I figured I would take it easy to knock some rust off since I haven been on a "ride" in 2 months.
It had rained friday night, so the roads were a bit damp in places, and completely wet in some spots under all the trees.
So i started testing the Metzeler Sportec M1s. You know, start each corner a bit faster and faster, building my confidence in the tires... I am noticing that I am going faster than I normally am, but it seems so effortless. So I'm thinkin, yeah, I am LOVING this tire. As I am in mid corner each time, I blip the throttle to see if the rear holds, and it did. So I start to speed up, mind you. I am running in 4th with the rpms low, to start out, about 5k. After about 15 minutes, of this, I about decide that I can't break the rear loose. So I just started floggin the piss out of the tires coming out of each corner. The damn thing still holds. So I downshift to third, and ride in a shorter gear with the RPMs higher. And continue to blip the throttle to get the friggin tire to break loose. The on/off the throttle in the corner didn't work either. So I start just powering out of the corner in 3rd. All the time, waiting on the back to loose traction. I mean, I have never came out of a corner on the street so hard in my life. Well, basically, I was romping on the throttle so hard in the corner that it was messing up my line, and lean angle. So then my senses take over, and I realize that it I had better just chill out before I fool around and dump the Busa. I never did get that metzeler to break loose.
I must say, that I am VERY impressed, those are some fast and STICKY tires! They have a better corner turn in, than the Pilot Sports, and are definately better grip. The Michelins would have lost traction long before these did. I was able to hold my line much better in the corners with these M1s.
I can tell you they are better than the Pilot sports for sure, and definatley better thatn the Dunflop D208s.
Do they stick better than the pilot powers or D218s? I don't know, as I have never ridden on them. But Michelin sure had better improved their tire alot to perform like this.
-Bill
It had rained friday night, so the roads were a bit damp in places, and completely wet in some spots under all the trees.
So i started testing the Metzeler Sportec M1s. You know, start each corner a bit faster and faster, building my confidence in the tires... I am noticing that I am going faster than I normally am, but it seems so effortless. So I'm thinkin, yeah, I am LOVING this tire. As I am in mid corner each time, I blip the throttle to see if the rear holds, and it did. So I start to speed up, mind you. I am running in 4th with the rpms low, to start out, about 5k. After about 15 minutes, of this, I about decide that I can't break the rear loose. So I just started floggin the piss out of the tires coming out of each corner. The damn thing still holds. So I downshift to third, and ride in a shorter gear with the RPMs higher. And continue to blip the throttle to get the friggin tire to break loose. The on/off the throttle in the corner didn't work either. So I start just powering out of the corner in 3rd. All the time, waiting on the back to loose traction. I mean, I have never came out of a corner on the street so hard in my life. Well, basically, I was romping on the throttle so hard in the corner that it was messing up my line, and lean angle. So then my senses take over, and I realize that it I had better just chill out before I fool around and dump the Busa. I never did get that metzeler to break loose.
I must say, that I am VERY impressed, those are some fast and STICKY tires! They have a better corner turn in, than the Pilot Sports, and are definately better grip. The Michelins would have lost traction long before these did. I was able to hold my line much better in the corners with these M1s.
I can tell you they are better than the Pilot sports for sure, and definatley better thatn the Dunflop D208s.
Do they stick better than the pilot powers or D218s? I don't know, as I have never ridden on them. But Michelin sure had better improved their tire alot to perform like this.
-Bill
