YOU HEAR A LOT about tyres. This brand versus that. This tread-pattern is better than that tread-pattern. This one moves more water than that one. This one is better for track-days. This one sucks. This one blows. This one rules and is the greatest tyre ever, and no other tyre has ever been or ever will be as good.
Thing is, all the tyres made these days, yes even the cheaper Chinese ones, are better than you imagine. And certainly, in 99.9 per cent of cases, better than you’ll ever need.
Once upon a time, there used to be these things called “tyre tests” in the motorcycle media. They were all bullshit. Five different tyres on five different bikes with five different riders is not a test. It’s a weekend away with beer at the publisher’s expense. A story is certainly cobbled together at the end, and conclusions are drawn, but that was pretty much bullshit too.
The only fair way of actually testing a
