BT46 on Breganze 750 track bikes

Not explicitly Bridgestone... but Heidenau make excellent track/racing tyres in many classic sizes for light- to middleweight bikes. These work great on 500 Lavs, could be hard-pushed on a 750 though.

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Not explicitly Bridgestone... but Heidenau make excellent track/racing tyres in many classic sizes for light- to middleweight bikes. These work great on 500 Lavs, could be hard-pushed on a 750 though.

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I was pretty unhappy with the Heidenau tyres on the track.
I phoned to Heidenau and had a talked to a technician.
He told me not to use the tyres on the track bikes with more than 500cc especially if the motorbike has more power.
 
Tyres ...! Want to put the closest thing to road tyres on Emily's new Beemer - got chunky Karoos on it, more air than rubber. Read shedloads of reviews, pore over websites, find THE PERFECT TYRE ... and discover it's not brought into Oz ... Pommie company will ship no probs, but A$190 kinda kaboshes that idea. Dunlop seem to be the hardest of the mainstream tyres to source here.

I'd just go full road but the 110/90 x 19 inch front limits options. 140/80 x 17 rear not so, but want a matched pair. Have gone a 90-10 road-dirt Bridgestone Battlax A41.
 
Q I had a quick look at Bridgestone, as I love my T32; the latest T33 no longer comes in a 140 rear. Typically, reducing my choices again. The smallest they make in a rear T33 is a 150, which is too big for my 3.00 rear rim and only in a 17. They do a few T33 in 110 x 80 x19inch fronts and a 150 x 17 rear that might suit you, and again no 18inch rears at all. It's such a pain if your rims are not typical. As far as that Moto GP crash, he hit the gravel next to the straight, and instead of slowing it down, it just exploded, sending large chunks everywhere.
 
Apparently there was a concrete drain crossing the gravel, not a place they expect bikes to traverse. Shows how effective safety gear has become that both he and Zarco weren't far worse off.
 
Ouch Andy! It seems neither motorcycles nor wheelbarrows forgive misjudgments. I didn't mean to pull your leg - just had such a vivid image in my mind and simply had to get it out. Wish you a quick recovery!
 
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No, front end dug in at the bottom of a steep downward slope and I went over the handle bars, a bit like a high side on a bike, landing ribs first on the rim of the barrow. 😢
Next time I’ll wear my airbag suit…
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That's no good Andy, that hurts!! I did something similar when I was about 13 or 14yo. I started running while pushing a wheelbarrow and as I got faster the handles rose up, the guard around the wheel hit the dirt and the whole show flipped with me landing on top of one of the rear stands!! Broke a rib and was in agony for a couple of weeks. Rib is still bent out of shape..............................
 
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So Wheelbarrow skills, the higher you get the handles, the less weight your hands carry, BUT the closer you get to going over the handlebars, add some high water content concrete with its slop effect, and crashing becomes extremely easy. The answer is don't overfill your barrow. And pump your tyres up, nobody does that.
 
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Tyres ...! Want to put the closest thing to road tyres on Emily's new Beemer - got chunky Karoos on it, more air than rubber. Read shedloads of reviews, pore over websites, find THE PERFECT TYRE ... and discover it's not brought into Oz ... Pommie company will ship no probs, but A$190 kinda kaboshes that idea. Dunlop seem to be the hardest of the mainstream tyres to source here.

I'd just go full road but the 110/90 x 19 inch front limits options. 140/80 x 17 rear not so, but want a matched pair. Have gone a 90-10 road-dirt Bridgestone Battlax A41.
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These are the exact sizes i run on my xs1100 since 2012. Well the 1st rear was 130/90-17 but now 140/80r17 . Matching continental trail attack. Some folks cant get their heads around a "trail" tyre on the road but they're a high performance road tyre. Fast warm up, stable 2 up loaded and top radial handling.
Great 2 up to Breganze and throwing it up Shelsey Walsh Hill Climb.
Rob
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So Wheelbarrow skills, the higher you get the handles, the less weight your hands carry, BUT the closer you get to going over the handlebars, add some high water content concrete with its slop effect, and crashing becomes extremely easy. The answer is don't overfill your barrow. And pump your tyres up, nobody does that.
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Almost impossible to connect a pump to all the wheelbarrows I have tried lately.
 
Yep, I tried to get a leak fixed before a Concrete Pour a few years back, stupid hard even at a huge tyre shop. But it needed to happen, low pressure ups the physical force required to heart-busting level.
 
Love my "non-flat" wheelbarrow tyre!

As there are no longer any good quality tyres and tubes to be had, they all seem to be as thick and puncture resilent as a pigs' bladder, I was constantly fighting low pressure, needed topping up every couple of weeks for heavy loads. The non-flat copes with all types of loads while remaining extremely manouverable. Hurts at first (price) but never going back to pneumatic in this case! Bloody thing will most probably out-last me anyway...;)

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