Brand new Avon Roadriders split!!....AGAIN!!!

mcnicol said:
Yeah, but Continental don't have a back tyre that'll fit on a Laverda, the only 18" back tyre is a 160/60. Might fit inside an RGS swing arm but the chain is going to be micrometres from the tyre. Pity :(.

Ken
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Meke sprokets fit for 520 chain than it works
 
Ken,

A 160/60 works fine on a 3.5" rim and a #520 chain.  Not sure it will fit in a stock 3C swinger, but the RGS swinger gives it a lot of room.

piet
 

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mcnicol said:
Yeah, but Continental don't have a back tyre that'll fit on a Laverda, the only 18" back tyre is a 160/60. Might fit inside an RGS swing arm but the chain is going to be micrometres from the tyre. Pity :(.

Ken
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They do make cross ply tyres in 18inch that will fit
 
fck Drikko, how many times do you have to be told, if you wanna run with the big boys get the pirellis,

Im only gonna say it 50 more times
 
So after a rather boozy day yesterday (sorry about that Club Laverda QLD, promise I'll behave next month....!!) I wandered around to get the bike back from Tyres for Bikes today, Avon have supplied them with a 3rd tyre for free, TFB had to put it on yet again, they've lost money big time on this. I said to Dave that hey if it started splitting again then I would want another brand and am happy to contribute the proportion of miles I had done on the various Avons. I didn't want to raise hell like I would normally in these circumstances as they are a good sponsor of the Concourse.

So we will see how it goes!!!!

BTW I asked if it was a batch problem and they checked the batches and the 1st, 2nd and the new one are different batches! The front one is still perfect, so it's a bit strange!! I would like it to work as they feel like great tyres.



 
were you pissed at the club meeting Drikko ?  :o
Max and I thought that was quite normal behaviour for you  :D

see the guy on Triple M, won $10,000 in a competition to lay on the nose to pick the winner of the Melbourne Cup
he could not decide which horse to back so narrowed it down to 7 horses, put them in a hat, pulled one out, laid the $10k on the nose for this nag to win the big race, it came home by a nostril
he won $87,500
bet he got pissed Tuesday night as well but at least he had an excuse, Drikko  :D

 
I just picked up my Jota rims after fitting the new Michelin Pilot Actives. 
While putting them into the boot of my car I was struck by their blackness, a velvety viscous sheen like a cocktail of molten tar, black sambucca and dark matter.  It was so striking that it briefly obscured their real virtue - their incredible roundness!  I actually had to take a couple of steps back so I could really take it in. Really, really round.  They made my car door look positively trapezoidal.  Amazing.
I was also impressed to find they were both going in the correct direction.  I have tried BT45's, Diablo Stradas etc, but all of them have at some point been going in the wrong direction.  Michelin must have really put the research into these new models to get them so right first time.
I hope you have found this product review helpful.
Cheers
Steve B
 
Glad you enjoeyed my review. :-)  The Jota's a stocker Vince, tyres the normal 100/90 and 120/90, stock thick web rims.
Here's a link to the tyres:
http://motorcycle.michelin.com.au/twproduct/findProduct/moreProduct/15
Like all tyres of this size these days they are aimed at middleweight bikes. I hope they do not crap out like BT45's do.  Perhaps I could do a part2 of my exhaustive review above when I have ridden them a bit...
Cheers
Steve B

 
The third Avon seems to be holding together this time, so I suspect it must just have been bad luck on the first 2! Got a couple of thousand ks on it and no issues. Feels great to use so I am happy with the performance.

 
That opening within the crack somehow reminds me of my Mrs.

When I found it, I approached her father, he said "The warranty was void the moment I took her off the showroom floor" :D
 
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