Sport GT Tires Review: Do you roll to motorcycle all the year, even under the rain, in the cold and the winter? Are you in search of better sport GT motorcycle tires? One goes up road, general-purpose and all seasons? Do you want security with braking, in turn with acceleration?
The best choice is here; follow the guide sport GT motorcycle tire guide broad to you by bikescatalog.com
To choose the best motorcycle tire, which will be the most adapted to the category of your motorcycle with your use, your way of rolling and also in the various weather conditions under which you usually roll, are obviously crucial.
In particular, in this 2013 wintry time, on cold or wet roads the choice of the good motorcycle tires have more important as the reactions of your machine will be sometimes independent of your will and thus of your security. On eggs, in the small hour, in the fog, between the sheets of ice, the puddle pools of water even the first snowflakes; you must have 100% confidence in the tires of your motorcycle.
Indeed, which was never made beautiful frights (even worse) while accelerating on a softened road or by grabbing the front brake on a wet ground? In short, you know inevitably what we speak today and inter alia the choice of a motorcycle tire is all the more complicated as the manufacturers never offered us such an offer, such a range of radial tires motorcycle “general-purpose all seasons”, tires intended for the most sold motorcycles on our premises, that is to say the famous category of the tires motorcycle “Sport-GT”.
In 2010, these represented nearly a third of the market, that is to say 281,272 tires motorcycle sport GT (or lorry drivers/fast) sold on a total of sold tires motorcycle (all rolled confused) estimated then at 945,614 units (from a reliable news source).
Finally a comparative truth about sport-GT motorcycle tires
As much to say, therefore, to choose a motorcycle tire for sport GT is today the headache of many motorcyclists. Fortunately, there exists on bikescatalog.com a good amount of tests of the innovations motorcycle tires. Moreover, a good amount of the test between you use already our reviews and tests, the first test bench motorcycle tire (and scooter) on Internet, which makes it possible to leave and read thousands of opinion of motorcyclists and other users of tire motorcycle.
But if this tool already makes it possible to form a good opinion and to compare the opinions of the readers of bikescatalog.com tires on several models of motorcycle, nothing is worth a test of tires indeed the same day, under the same conditions, on the same motorcycles, by the same pilots and with same measurements… And this comparative of the new motorcycle tires of sport GT. it is precisely what we have just carried out – from of excluded on the Web – for you, readers of the stations. Now, action!
Match 6 motorcycle tires for sport-GT: Casting bikescatalog
The choice of the tires tested was obvious: we retained the tires of the category motorcycle sport GT of the largest manufacturers: Bridgestone BT 23, Continental Contiroad Attack 2, Dunlop Road Smart II (2), Metzeler Roadtec Z8 Interact M/O, Michelin Pilot Road 3, Pirelli Angel ST In addition, the ranking of the sizes of the most sold motorcycle tires made us retain dimensions 120/70 X 17 and 180/55 X 17, which respectively account for 17% and 15% of the sales of the year 2009.
Bridgestone BT 23
Marketing: spring 2010
Technology: bi tires in the back, version GT reinforced available, adapted to the large trails
Place of manufacturing: Japan (like all the tires motorcycle of the brand)
Dimensions before:
- 110/70 X 17
- 120/60 X 17
- 120/70 X 17
- 120/70 X 17 (GT) (BMW R 1200 RT, BMW K 1300 GT, Yamaha FJR 1300…)
- 110/80 X 18
- 120/70 X 18
- 120/70 X 18 (GT)
- 110/80 X 19 (trails)
Dimensions back:
- 150/70 X 17
- 160/60 X 17
- 170/60 X 17 (GT)
- 160/70 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 180/55 X 17
- 180/55 X 17 (GT)
- 190/55 X 17 (GT)
- 190/50 X 17
- 160/60 X 18
Continental Contiroad Attack 2
Marketing: October 2010
Technology: specific mixture continuous compound AV/AR, classical version GT and motorcycles, dimension trail available
Place of manufacturing: Germany
Dimensions before:
- 110/70 X 17
- 120/60 X 17
- 120/70 X 17
- 120/70 X 17 (GT)
- 100/90 X 18
- 110/80 X 18
- 120/70 X 18
- 110/80 X 19
Dimensions back:
- 150/70 X 17
- 160/60 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 180/55 X 17
- 180/55 X 17 (GT)
- 190/50 X 17
- 190/55 X 17
- 130/80 X 18
- 130/80 X 18 (classical motorcycles)
- 150/65 X 18 (classical motorcycles)
- 160/60 X 18
Dunlop RoadSmart II
Marketing: October 2011
Technology: mono front gum, Bi gum back, not reinforced version GT
Place of manufacturing: France (Montlucon)
Dimensions before:
- 110/70 X 17
- 120/60 X 17
- 120/70 X 17
- 110/80 X 18
- 120/70 X 18
- 110/80 X 19 (trails)
Dimensions back:
- 150/70 X 17
- 160/60 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 160/70 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 180/55 X 17
- 190/55 X 17
- 190/50 X 17
- 160/60 X 18
Metzeler Roadtec Z8 Interact M/O
Marketing: June 2012, first version in spring 2010
Technology: mono gum with front, Bi gum in the back, Interact technology, reinforced version (O)
Place of manufacturing: Germany
Dimensions before:
- 110/70 X 17
- 120/60 X 17
- 120/70 X 17
- 120/70 X 17 (M)
- 110/80 X 18
- 120/70 X 18
Dimensions back:
- 150/70 X 17
- 160/60 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 180/55 X 17
- 180/55 X 17 (M)
- 180/55 X 17 (O)
- 190/55 X 17 (M)
- 190/55 X 17 (O)
- 190/50 X 17 (M)
- 190/50 X 17 (O)
- 160/60 X 18
Michelin Pilot Road 3
Marketing: January 2011
Technology: get (2CT) AV and AR, technology called to strips XST, reinforced version (B), and version trail.
Place of manufacturing: Spain (Lasarte)
Dimensions before:
- 110/70 X 17
- 120/60 X 17
- 120/70 X 17
- 110/80 X 18
- 120/70 X 18
- 110/80 X 19 (trail)
Dimensions back:
- 150/70 X 17
- 150/70 X 17 (trail)
- 160/60 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 180/55 X 17
- 180/55 X 17 (B)
- 190/55 X 17
- 190/50 X 17
- 160/60 X 18
Pirelli Angel ST
Marketing: spring 2009
Technology: mono gum AV/AR, technology EPT (impressed extended to the ground), reinforced version (E) available.
Place of manufacturing: Germany
Dimensions before:
- 120/60 X 17
- 120/70 X 17
- 110/80 X 18
- 120/70 X 18
Dimensions back:
- 150/70 X 17
- 160/60 X 17
- 170/60 X 17
- 180/55 X 17
- 180/55 X 17 (E)
- 190/55 X 17
- 190/50 X 17
- 160/60 X 18
Comparative sport GT motorcycle tires : How we proceeded
The adventures started as of our search for a site of test, that is to say a track with constant watering and a track of wet braking. And those centers having this kind of installation are not legion: Dunlop with Mireval, Michelin with Ladoux, Metzeler in Italy close to Milan, Continental in Hanover in Germany and Bridgestone in Italy.
After grinds requests, we finally received a positive response of Bridgestone, which accommodated for the first time professional media French motorcycle, in its center of test tire close to the town of Aprilia, in the south of Rome.
Like motorcycle of test tire, we retained excellent Honda CB1000R (in double specimen), a popular motorcycle in France, equipped with an amply sufficient power and a couple to maltreat gums, as well as braking powerful ABS. An ideal choice,Honda CB1000R showed so neutral and precise behavior which it constituted allied invaluable for our testers, allowing them to concentrate only on the tires.
The tires of this comparative were initially provided by the manufacturers, then exchanged by our care with tires commercial directly in dealers, by taking care to check the DOWRY of the tires obtained (so that they are not old tires), and also by throwing an eye on their conditions of storage.
2 motorcycles, 2 testers, 6 mount tires, tracks wet, measurements and tests… as a blind man
Two Honda CB1000R ABS were entrusted to Christophe (1.69 m, 70 kg not equipped), permanent journalist of the drafting of bikescatalog.com. He is fond of the motorcycles of road, and rather felt tires known as progressive and attentive. David (1.76 m, 85 kg not equipped), the second tester, rolls to the daily newspaper and practical the circuit, in leisure and competition.
For the need of this comparative sport GT motorcycles tires, we have two wet tracks of test. The first is appeared as a classical track speed with a device of pumps guaranteeing a constant watering. We buckled sessions of 10/12 turns, before returning to raise our impressions. The use of second track makes it possible to test braking, also equipped with a system of constant watering and several types of bitumen, with variable levels of adherence. We chose bitumen known as “concrete”, equivalent to classical bitumen of Western Europe.
The motorcycles are equipped with our equipment making it possible to measure speed and the distance covered between two points. We carried out 4 tests per set of tires. The temperature of the tires (on the level of the tread, factor more speaking) is measured cold by Mehdi, then after each return in the box. It also controls the pressure applied in the pneumatic tires, namely the pressure recommended by the manufacturer of motorcycles, that is to say 2.5 AV, 2.9 AR.
The manufacturers besides this wished that this same pressure would be applied so that none of them is favored. Mehdi carries out a test with the udometer in order to check the differences in hardness of gums of the tires then takes the role of blind dog to guide us towards the motorcycles. It is him who determines the order of passage of the tires and carries out the catches of sights. Last precision of the more high importance, we produced this comparative tires motorcycle sport-GT as a blind man, i.e. without knowing in advance which tires we were going to judge.
Now remain to read the results of our comparative motorcycle tires for Sport GT 2013… Stay Connected!!!
