Need tires.

[tod.branko_imp]

I am afraid, I am entertaining this curious, old-fashioned notion because I was trained this way, and yes, ... I agree with you, it must be called curious lately. Why not scientific ? there is a distinctive difference for me between science and engineering, with repetitive testing of a tire without the aim of further insight into its inner workings I would rather call engineering (product development).

A teacher of mine repeatedly said, partial information is always better than no information. He would however have refused to call fake news and opinions partial information, but would have called (incomplete) statistical information and random samples (here: tires and helmets) very useful.

Now back to the tires, for car tires as I know them better, there are without a doubt:
- significant differences, and prices
- consistent, long-term results showing some brands are better (regardless of marketing)
- that there are trade-offs, and how they work,
- I am not aware (for cars) that a good tire will be a bad performer on the wrong car (as long as we excluded GP etc.).

So can the situation be different, I mean really different for motorcycles. May be this forum can help, may be not. I thought it's worth asking the question. But I am afraid I do not have all the answers and never will

Appreciated your provocative questions, and I am happy that there are less as many rim shapes than head shapes (literally and otherwise).

Allow me to only reply to this little part of your comment because everything you said about car tires can be applied on motorcycle tires, even bicycle tires, skate wheels etc. Except for that last bit because surely a good tire can be a bad performer on the wrong car because all cars and all tires have their intended purposes, there are so many variables in riding condotions, car weight, loading weight, horsepower, types of drivers, and in the end it is a good tire, but a wrong tire. And can it happen that a manufacturer installs a "good wrong" tire on a car. Yes, most definitely for someone it will be a wrong tire. Good and bad can be judged objectively, but right and wrong is always subjective


'14 CB1100 STD 5 speed