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Re: Buy your tyres now!
Posted: May 7th, '22, 08:22
by Jug
It's mainly just marketing BS anyway. Once a tyre is good enough for your bike & riding style..., then it's good enough, period.
Paying twice as much for an even better one with a slightly different tread pattern is a fool's errand and just makes you even more gutted when you get a non-repairable puncture 500 miles later.
Re: Buy your tyres now!
Posted: May 7th, '22, 08:50
by TLS-Moose
Jug wrote: ↑May 7th, '22, 08:22
It's mainly just marketing BS anyway. Once a tyre is good enough for your bike & riding style..., then it's good enough, period.
Paying twice as much for an even better one with a slightly different tread pattern is a fool's errand and just makes you even more gutted when you get a non-repairable puncture 500 miles later.
this. I've currently got Metzler M5's on the MV. They were a great tyre when they came out, and are still a great tyre today. You can get them for two thirds the cost of the later M7's or M9's, but it doesn't mean the later versions are 50% better......
Re: Buy your tyres now!
Posted: May 7th, '22, 13:30
by ptolemyx
"It's mainly just marketing BS anyway. Once a tyre is good enough for your bike & riding style..., then it's good enough, period."
Totally agree Andy, pretty much any new tyre will be better than the worn hoop it replaces.
But I simply must have the latest all singing super-duper tyre if it shaves a few tenths off my North Devon TT lap time
Tongue firmly in cheek
Re: Buy your tyres now!
Posted: May 7th, '22, 18:08
by Jug
ptolemyx wrote: ↑May 7th, '22, 13:30
Totally agree Andy, pretty much any new tyre will be better than the worn hoop it replaces.
Ok..., but why are you calling me Andy?
Senior moment I guess.
Re: Buy your tyres now!
Posted: May 7th, '22, 18:29
by Ming
Yeah, I let that go
Re: Buy your tyres now!
Posted: May 8th, '22, 04:55
by ptolemyx
Sorry about that Mike and Bob. Even forget my own name at times.
Cheers, Algernon
