What road tyres for GSXR1000L7

[cmaguire]

The RS10 tyres have done 1500 miles and I think they may have tried to throw me down the road, although the rear doesn't look squared off.
Around 2mm tread, but never checked how much it started out with.

What is flavour of the month now, and why?

[Biker's Nemesis]

I wasn't keen on the RS 10's on my MT10 or R1.

I use Supercorsa Pro's on the road taken from my track bike but theses are not ideal at this time of year.

A few mates use the Metzelers M77R's and rave about them, a great all year round tyre, a couple of the lads that use them are ex racers and others are your usual summer only riders.

I've ridden a couple of bikes fitted with them and they didn't kill me.

[Birky_41]

What Nemesis said

I run Supercorsa SP in summer but they are rubbish this time of year. Takes an age to warm up.

If you want a tyre that warms up quick and gives decent knee down grip this time of year go with M7RR, Rosso 3 or S21's any of them are good all round sports bike road tyres

They dont grip like a Supercorsa in the summer but they do offer really got wet and cold grip

My bikes not as powerful as yours but has plenty of torque (1100 Tuono) and I find with these TC 1-2 notches up pressures at 34f and 34/35r you'll be fine

[cmaguire]

I had M7RRs on my 750 before and thought they were slow to turn,although that might add a bit of stability to this bike.

I'm probably leaning towards a Pirelli unless I get talked out of it due to all the BSB/WSB development filtering down.

[Fleegle]

BN - what's the difference between the RS10 and the R10's we used to use?

[cmaguire]

Fleegle said:

BN - what's the difference between the RS10 and the R10's we used to use?

I'm not BN obviously, but Racing and Racing Street

[Biker's Nemesis]

Fleegle said:

BN - what's the difference between the RS10 and the R10's we used to use?

RS 10's are a road tyre and the R10's are a track/road tyre.

The RS10's last longer but too me they feel slow to turn in and I didn't have any confidence in them on the road when the pace gets upped.

I had a set of my old R 10's left and fitted them to the MT and it felt better straight away on the front which isn't as round as the RS 10's.

[Gavia]

RS10s are useless. I’ve done c2500 miles on my R1 this year, 600 of them running in miles and gone through two rears already. I’ll be sticking Conti Race Attacks on it next year when I venture out in the warmer months.

At this time of year, I’d be fitting a more road oriented tyre on, with plenty of sipes and tread.

Edited by Gavia on Friday 3rd November 13:13

[cmaguire]

Thinking about it, there was a Continental I was considering that PBikes were very positive about

[Birky_41]

Gavia said:

. I’ll be sticking Conti Race Attacks on it next year when I venture out in the warmer months.

At this time of year, I’d be fitting a more road oriented tyre on, with plenty of sipes and tread.

Edited by Gavia on Friday 3rd November 13:13

The Conti is a proper underrated tyre in my opinion. Much more rubber compared to the supercorsa and very good grip I found! I ran endurance which were similar to SP's & put my old track tyres on my road bike and found again the same in summer. They were soft and medium track compound. Just needed to get initial heat in them

[cmaguire]

Looks like it was the Race Attack Endurance they were rating.

Bit OTT probably for me , and this time of year too,

Anyone tried the Sport Attack 3?
Relative to say Diablo Rosso 3

[Birky_41]

cmaguire said:

Looks like it was the Race Attack Endurance they were rating.

Bit OTT probably for me , and this time of year too,

Anyone tried the Sport Attack 3?
Relative to say Diablo Rosso 3

Thats a summer tyre. Rosso 3 would be much better this time of year. Rode a mates bike same as mine with them (Mines got M7RR) and the Rosso 3 are very similar. It wasn't my bike to push on but Im told they grip a touch better in the dry but worse in the wet than M7RR due to grooves

[CoolHands]

I had Michelin pilot powers on mine. Seemed good enough

[cmaguire]

CoolHands said:

I had Michelin pilot powers on mine. Seemed good enough

You'll be telling me to put Dunlop Qualifiers on it next.

[Turkish91]

I absolutely swear by the Bridgestone Battlax Hypersport.... BT016R Pro may be it's proper codename! I have a horrible feeling they're phasing them out now and replacing them with the S20 I think it's called

[Birky_41]

Turkish91 said:

I absolutely swear by the Bridgestone Battlax Hypersport.... BT016R Pro may be it's proper codename! I have a horrible feeling they're phasing them out now and replacing them with the S20 I think it's called

S20 is a better tyre though? Comes on the MT10 as standard which is now being replaced by the S21

[patchb]

Turkish91 said:

I absolutely swear by the Bridgestone Battlax Hypersport.... BT016R Pro may be it's proper codename! I have a horrible feeling they're phasing them out now and replacing them with the S20 I think it's called

S20 is old now, been through S20 evo and now on S21. Much better tyres than BT016R.

Just finished a set of S20 evos on my Tuono and they were brilliant so will go for s21's next time.

[Turkish91]

patchb said:

Turkish91 said:

I absolutely swear by the Bridgestone Battlax Hypersport.... BT016R Pro may be it's proper codename! I have a horrible feeling they're phasing them out now and replacing them with the S20 I think it's called

S20 is old now, been through S20 evo and now on S21. Much better tyres than BT016R.

Just finished a set of S20 evos on my Tuono and they were brilliant so will go for s21's next time.

Maybe I'll have to give them a go, I'm a creature of habit and can't find fault in the Hypersports so have ran them whenever I can!

[Mr OCD]

Birky_41 said:

Thats a summer tyre. Rosso 3 would be much better this time of year. Rode a mates bike same as mine with them (Mines got M7RR) and the Rosso 3 are very similar. It wasn't my bike to push on but Im told they grip a touch better in the dry but worse in the wet than M7RR due to grooves

Agreed. I’ve found the M7RR / DR3 and Pilot RS tyres absolutely fine for all year round use. They warm up quickly, work in the wet and get sensible mileage.

I don’t see the point in putting touring tyres on a sportsbike these days when sport tyres are so good.

[cmaguire]

Mr OCD said:

Agreed. I’ve found the M7RR / DR3 and Pilot RS tyres absolutely fine for all year round use. They warm up quickly, work in the wet and get sensible mileage.

I don’t see the point in putting touring tyres on a sportsbike these days when sport tyres are so good.

That's my thinking.
The STR needs tyres also so I reckon I'm going to put the Conti SportAttack3 on that.
Then I might go with SuperCorsas on the GSXR as it won't get much use till March, or maybe Diablo Rosso Corsas (but I'm not sure about these as they were on the STR when I bought it so they are a bit ancient and maybe the Rosso 3s are better).