Wow! Tire Sale at BikeBandit This Weekend!

[900gc]

I just paid 291 for metzeler z8's and got a free $120 pair of Smith sunglasses from metzeler.

(Does anybody like the battleaxes???, personally they'd have to pay me to put those back on my bike)

The tires that come OEM on the FJR are the 021s and they SUCK. The 023s 'GT' spec are a fairly popular tire around here. A little searching will provide a plethora of favorable reviews on them.

I have a set of 023's on now and I like them. Mileage looks like it will be the same as the Road Pilot 2's that I had been running but these tires provide a MUCH smoother ride and you don't have to horse the front end around in turns. And they cost significantly less.

Unless the mileage turns out to be significantly less than the Michelins, I won't go back to the hard side-walled Road Pilots.

Try them.

I had asked the question about ride quality in another tire thread, hoping to find softer, more compliant ones than the PR2's. Your opinion is the first one I've found addressing this in a direct comparison of the PR2 to another brand. Sounds like the 023's are one and for the cheaper price, they could wear out 20% faster and still cost the same as the Mic's.

 

[Zorlac]

FWIW, A single standard PR2 rear from jakewilson.com is $151 delivered.