Super Corsa

[Triaguar]

Just an observation really. I have just done a three week tour of Spain from Santander to Granada via the Picos, Pyrennees and Sierra Nevada mountains. I thought long and hard about tyre choice, Sports or Sports Tourer, but travelling on a six year old Blade with two brand new BM 1000 RR's and a ZX10 I thought I needed all the help I could get so went for Super Corsas. This was followed by comments such as ' they will only do 1000 miles' and the classic ' if it rains you will die'

Well here is my little story. What a fantastic tyre, it did rain, a lot, in the Picos and they held traction very well, leaving the Picos we also left the rain and got hot, very hot temperatures in 40's so heaven knows what surface temps were and we travelled fast ( the ones that have done Spain on sports bikes you know what I mean!) the tyres held up very well. I had done 3000 miles and there seemed quite a bit of life in them when I got a high speed puncture, the bike wobbled a bit but the tyre stayed on the rim and allowed me to come to a controlled stop, bloomin' brilliant Pirelli. There was also an incident that contained a sharp corner, a blade travelling too fast and an Armco over a cliff, the reason I am telling this story is I am sure down to the grip of those tyres.

So in summary if you are fancying super Corsas this is what they will do, 1. At least three thousand miles 2. Give reasonable grip in the wet 3 make you feel like a riding God 4 they do seem to match a Fireblade wonderfully.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Great tyres but I can only get 500 - 700 miles out of a rear.

Try also Bridgestone R10/11

Metzelers race techs

[Triaguar]

Interestingly the others were on the R 10's and had good things to say about them, slightly more mileage out of them.. 500 miles? You do know they are supposed to get dirty a bit before you throw them away 😀

Will your recommendations a try. Thanks

[Rawwr]

2,478 miles on my Fireblade so far. I think there's about another 500 miles in it. I ride like a pussy though.

[R1 Dave]

I run these on my 2015 R1 and absolutely love them. I got 2,300 miles out of the last set, the vast majority of those being ‘fun’ miles rather than commuting. I won’t put anything else on the bike (except possibly the Metz Racetecs as they’re essentially the same tyre).

[Biker's Nemesis]

I don't know why I get so few miles out of mine, it's not like I'm a fat fker either.

[bogie]

I run Supercorsa on my MV, it came with them from new. I only do 2500-3000 miles a year on it in nice weather on the road only and manage to get something like that out of a rear, so I just put a new set on once a year.

[trickywoo]

Presumably we are all talking about the SP and not SC.

I've done about 1k miles on a set of SPs and haven't found the wear rate much higher than I would expect from M7RRs

[Rawwr]

Another Super Corsa:

[SAS Tom]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I don't know why I get so few miles out of mine, it's not like I'm a fat fker either.

Probably because you open the throttle more than 10%

[Triaguar]

SAS Tom said:

Probably because you open the throttle more than 10%

Naughty and uncalled for.

[Birky_41]

How you got that many miles out of a SC I dont know - fair play!

I love the tyres but tend to run Conti race Attack Endurance as the grip is near on the same, wet grip is better and tread is deeper so last longer.

I also did just a smidge over 3000 miles 2 weeks ago all over Europe running Metz M7RRs. The rear was on the limiter on a big patch of the middle and at least half gone on the sides

Just put another set of Conti on and its taking me time to get used to way the bike moves as its very different with soft squirmy tyres

If I could get the mileage you did out of SC I wouldnt run anything else

[SAS Tom]

anonymous said:

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To be fair it was to get a reaction but only because the majority of us aren’t as fast as we think we are. It’s like when everyone gets excited about Mr OCD getting 10 million miles out of the latest sports tyre when the majority of his riding is on the M62. It’s not that surprising when you take that into account.

[R1 Dave]

trickywoo said:

Presumably we are all talking about the SP and not SC.

I've done about 1k miles on a set of SPs and haven't found the wear rate much higher than I would expect from M7RRs

Oh it’s much higher! The M7 is made of rock! I ran them on the R1 for my TT trip last year (due to the very wet forecast) and after 1000 miles they looked brand new. A lot of that was motorway there and back too.

[trickywoo]

R1 Dave said:

Oh it’s much higher! The M7 is made of rock! I ran them on the R1 for my TT trip last year (due to the very wet forecast) and after 1000 miles they looked brand new. A lot of that was motorway there and back too.

I used to do a M7 in under 4k just cruising.

These SCs haven't worn too much in 1k but could go quick from here I suppose.

[Mr OCD]

anonymous said:

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Exactly.

I get daft mileage from tyres, but that is because a lot of my mileage is commuting therefore you are not riding billy balls out, hence tyres last longer. If you are only doing sunny weekend rider outs then yes tyres wear much faster. Surprisingly so visibly after some rides!

[R1 Dave]

trickywoo said:

R1 Dave said:

Oh it’s much higher! The M7 is made of rock! I ran them on the R1 for my TT trip last year (due to the very wet forecast) and after 1000 miles they looked brand new. A lot of that was motorway there and back too.

I used to do a M7 in under 4k just cruising.

These SCs haven't worn too much in 1k but could go quick from here I suppose.

In fairness, I haven’t run an M7 on the R1 for it’s full life as I didn’t like the way they slowed the steering down so I took them off after those 1k miles and put the Supercorsas back on. I’d have expected more wear for 1k miles out of a Supercorsa tho so I do believe the M7 wears far better than the Supercorsas but it’s a price worth paying IMHO.

The only issue I find with the Supercorsa is because of the lack of tread right in the centre, it’s hard to gauge how much tread is left there. End result being that when the off-centre tread gets a bit low I find the centre can totally de-laminate under harsh acceleration. My last two rears have done this. The last one went from passing an MOT to a big chunk of tyre coming off showing the cord within 40 miles.

[Gavia]

Do not get Bridgestone RS10s. They came as standard on my R1. I think I used four rears in the first 3000miles, thankfully the front was then shagged so I swapped to Continental Race Attacks which have stood up much better with no loss of grip or traction.

I don’t know how people can afford Pirellis anymore based on the price and lack of longevity.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Gavia said:

Do not get Bridgestone RS10s. They came as standard on my R1. I think I used four rears in the first 3000miles, thankfully the front was then shagged so I swapped to Continental Race Attacks which have stood up much better with no loss of grip or traction.

I don’t know how people can afford Pirellis anymore based on the price and lack of longevity.

£250 for 2 SC2 rears and a SC1 front.

Bridgestone R10's are great tyres

[Gavia]

Biker's Nemesis said:

£250 for 2 SC2 rears and a SC1 front.

Bridgestone R10's are great tyres

New or scrubbed SCs? The road tyres are SPs and they’re silly money

I was talking about RS10s and my experience, I’ve never used R10s