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These tyres are the absolute truth.
I walked into my storage unit to ride my bike with 3200 miles on it, when I noticed the OEM Gaylop 208's were flat with the cords showing.
I immediately ordered them from compacc for a great price and two days later I had some Powers on my doorstep.
My next door neighbour in the storage place happens to chrome out bikes in his unit and has a tyre changer. He hooked me up for a great deal, and I was on the road!
Pulling out, these things seemed like a really stiff ride, and the tyres resembled a triangle, seemingly making my ride height a couple of millimetres higher.
Turning onto the road, the bike fell into the turn like none other. After about 10 miles, the glazing was gone off the centre of the tyre.
I decided to do what any self-concious rider would do, take that bad boy to the twisties in an effort to scrub the whole tyre out.
I rode up to the local lake about 40 miles north of here, turned my iPod on and got down to business. I did a dry run first to see how these things warmed up, and to scout for people and road debris.
On the second pass, I ripped it open and the Powers did not miss a beat. These are so much easier to turn than D208's and Bridgestone 010/020's.
At the end of the second run down the three mile twistie stretch, I pulled over and looked at the back tyre and noticed a 2mm chicken strip left. I wasn't going home until I pushed it all the way over.
I hit up the second strech of road, about 5 miles long, this is the real deal, where it starts with 90 mph sweepers, going into a blind 15mph descending radius then game on. I could feel the tyres hitting the edge going over the corners. The Powers just felt that stable.
About halfway through, I adjusted my line to avoid some gravel and as a result found myself veering off the road. I just pushed the bike over harder and it went. Had I done that on 208's my ass would be sliding all over the place.
Down the road further, a minivan was a little on my side of the double yellows, of course my rookie ass panicked and let off the throttle a tad while leaned and the rear power slid controllably.
Coming back, an F-350 with a 20 foot boat trailer was blocking the whole road just beyond this fun corner that I was flying around, I guess trying to back that beast into his driveway, there was no swerve/escape path for this one, I just had to jam on the front brake coming out of the turn, and it became a non-issue.
Lastly, three turns down, a freaking 4 foot long snake decided to slither across the road in a corner, I was able to adjust my line with no problems.
I recommend these tyres, but only have 500 miles on them, so I do not know about wear yet, but they look great now!
I walked into my storage unit to ride my bike with 3200 miles on it, when I noticed the OEM Gaylop 208's were flat with the cords showing.
I immediately ordered them from compacc for a great price and two days later I had some Powers on my doorstep.
My next door neighbour in the storage place happens to chrome out bikes in his unit and has a tyre changer. He hooked me up for a great deal, and I was on the road!
Pulling out, these things seemed like a really stiff ride, and the tyres resembled a triangle, seemingly making my ride height a couple of millimetres higher.
Turning onto the road, the bike fell into the turn like none other. After about 10 miles, the glazing was gone off the centre of the tyre.
I decided to do what any self-concious rider would do, take that bad boy to the twisties in an effort to scrub the whole tyre out.
I rode up to the local lake about 40 miles north of here, turned my iPod on and got down to business. I did a dry run first to see how these things warmed up, and to scout for people and road debris.
On the second pass, I ripped it open and the Powers did not miss a beat. These are so much easier to turn than D208's and Bridgestone 010/020's.
At the end of the second run down the three mile twistie stretch, I pulled over and looked at the back tyre and noticed a 2mm chicken strip left. I wasn't going home until I pushed it all the way over.
I hit up the second strech of road, about 5 miles long, this is the real deal, where it starts with 90 mph sweepers, going into a blind 15mph descending radius then game on. I could feel the tyres hitting the edge going over the corners. The Powers just felt that stable.
About halfway through, I adjusted my line to avoid some gravel and as a result found myself veering off the road. I just pushed the bike over harder and it went. Had I done that on 208's my ass would be sliding all over the place.
Down the road further, a minivan was a little on my side of the double yellows, of course my rookie ass panicked and let off the throttle a tad while leaned and the rear power slid controllably.
Coming back, an F-350 with a 20 foot boat trailer was blocking the whole road just beyond this fun corner that I was flying around, I guess trying to back that beast into his driveway, there was no swerve/escape path for this one, I just had to jam on the front brake coming out of the turn, and it became a non-issue.
Lastly, three turns down, a freaking 4 foot long snake decided to slither across the road in a corner, I was able to adjust my line with no problems.
I recommend these tyres, but only have 500 miles on them, so I do not know about wear yet, but they look great now!
