Modern Tyres

[limeyrob]

Safety Mileage used to mean "so hard it lasts forever and skids on single rain drop".
The worst tyre I ever had was a "John Bull Rubber Company" re-mould (yes a bike remould) on the front of a BSA C11G, it skidded on a manhole cover and put me in a ditch on the 3rd day of ownership and it went in the bin on the 4th. Its was rock hard and crumbly.

[Tomcat]

I like the look of a K70 on my Super Rocket and find the handling great at 30 psi. I had a part worn TT100 (K81) from my Commando and 'ran it out' on the back of the SR, whilst it handles fine it has a smaller rolling diameter that gears it down too much for my liking.

[Black Sheep]

Anything is better than the Firestone "All gum dipped" rear tyre that was on my Norton when I bought it. Clearly made out of a combination of banana skins and iron filings. Wouldn't grip, wouldn't wear out.

[muskrat]

G'day Ant.
I really don't care how many miles I get out of tyres as long as they grip. Their what keeps your bum off the ground.
I recently fitted Dunlop Roadmaster TT100's on the A7 plunger and am really impressed. Old style looking but grip like poo to a blanket 360/19 front, 410/19 rear.
Cheers

[Radlan2]

I replied to a question like this on the Triples forum. I have a 930 T160 with a big rear rim. I use Continental Road Attack 2 (130X18) after giving up on Avon. Later other contributors said how disappointed they were with Continental tyres, Turns out the tyres they bought were from the Classic range, made in Thailand I think, where the Road attack range (for modern bikes) was made in Germany with a big difference in quality.
      Chris

[Mosin]

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to an Avon Roadrunner 410 x 19 for on the back of my Shooting Star please? I have always bought exactly the same tyres for my bike for as long as I can remember, so haven't thought about alternatives at all. Then this morning I sat down to order my new tyre for the forthcoming season only to discover that they have been discontinued.

All I want is another tyre which will fit my back wheel and do the job as well as the Roadrunner. 

[JulianS]

 Avon Roadrider?

[groily]

This is a very confusing area to me.
According to a couple of French suppliers those AM9s are still out there and available, in 4.10 x 19
See eg https://www.centralepneus.fr/pneu-moto/avon/universal-rr-am9/4.10-19-61h-1483191?adref=%2Fpneu-moto-4.1---19%2F%253Fbrands%25255B0%25255D%253D56
Others here in France also say they have them.

I got a couple of them last year from Vintage Tyres, but they then disappeared from the web site and haven't come back. They don't have any AM26 Road Riders either it seems from looking today, which although a bit of a modern profile for our sorts of machines, are I think pretty darn good and last well too.

It's getting difficult. Vintage Tyres have said 'good news' and that the full range will be available, the bike ones coming from Nova and made in the EU after the factory closure in the UK. Maybe that's where the ones referred to above in France come from. Just don't know. I guess Vintage Tyres' Melksham factory stock has now gone, and new supplies are proving less easy than was hoped (https://www.vintagetyres.com/blog/avon-tyres-good-news.html)
Or maybe not good.

Meantime  . . .Dunlop K81 TT100s for similar look and performance on the SS? Musky likes them and he doesn't hang about, nor care about the
short life! At sub-Musky speeds I haven't managed more than about 2500-3000 miles on them on the rears of anything, but they are in keeping. K82s might also be out there, haven't looked, and then there are the Mitas and others mentioned in this and similar threads.

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