Conti tyres

I am having a set of Road Attacks fitted to my ZX9R tomorrow as a winter replacement for my Pilot Sports, i went for them after reading as many reviews as i could find, all of which pretty much pointed to them being one of the top all round tyres, they are supposed to be on par with the Sportec M1's in terms of grip whilst giving good mileage. The new Sport Attacks are starting to get some really good reviews too and are pretty much compared to the Pilot Powers (which i have never heard anyone moan about yet). My Mille is getting either Pilot Powers or Supercorsa's purely because the ZX9R is what i knock 500 miles a week out on :) Live life to thge full, but keep the rubber on the road

I fitted them to my SP before the Clubaprilia trackday in August - although I had a rather large accident - this was down to the rider rather than the tyres, Francis Williamson (a BSB standard rider) rode the bike before I smashed it up and was very impressed - they are also considerably cheaper than some of the other popular brands - as far as I am concerned they are now my tyre or choice for road and track - apprently the guy who designed them is the same guy who designed the Metzeler Sport-Tecs and a German BMW endurance team did very well in the championship running them. They were going for around £125 + vat a pair when I bought them.

Well i have had mine fitted today, it didnt go quite according to plan as the tyres the garage had delivered were in the end a pair of Sport Attacks, i cant really comment on them at the moment as i have literally only ridden back from the garage on them which is 25 miles of straight dual carriageway and all of that was through sodding rain :D However having had them fitted to my freshly tuned ZX9R, and running them at Conti's recommended tyre pressure (until i can find the psi that works best for me) they were fine from the box, no twitches, handling feels fine and the feedback seems to be good :) Live life to thge full, but keep the rubber on the road

No problems at all mate :) As i say i use the Z for an 80 mile a day commute into London, whatever the weather, this weekend if the weather is okay(ish) i am going to rape the tits off it aswell to get them scrubbed in properly :) Live life to thge full, but keep the rubber on the road

I believe the rear OZ is 5.5 - I'd personally stick with 180 and I'd also stick with the Sport Attacks normally but I guess if you are intending to do the mileage during the winter Road Attacks may be a safer grippier option

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Originally posted by PAB
I believe the rear OZ is 5.5 -

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Pab, is there an accurate way to measure the rear wheel while the tyre is on? I've an Aprilia Tuono brochure which suggests the wheels are 6".The chap from Continental Tyres seemed to think that Aprilia kept swapping wheel sizes between 5.5 and 6".[?]

I did'nt mean it to be the wrong way round - I am told that grippy track type tyres are very grippy when they are hot but in order to last when they are hot and grippy the compound takes longer to warm up thus a road tyre is probably grippier most of the time especially in cold damp winter conditions because the track type tyre simply never reaches it's optimum temperatue - thus (am I boring anyone yet?)...... at this time of the year you will get more grip from a road type tyre than you will from a track type tyre ... any experts ? please jump in here - I am simply repeating what I've been told - but if you think about it, it does make sense ... having said all of that I've got Sport Attacks on my bike.

with regards to OZ rear wheel size - I will make it a mission on Monday to establish exactly what size it is ,,, response coming soon (dependent upon response from aprilia)

Ah, righto PAB, gotcha now ! The Sport Attack is just that - a Sport biased road tyre, rather than a track biased tyre. Certainly never given a lot of time to warming them up before going for it, although in the general course of events , being slightly more mature, it does take me a little while to get up to speed ! Also of course I've only ridden the Contis in what passes for our summer weather, so, whilst I don't think so, there may be a warm up situation which would make the Road attacks more suited to winter. What we do in life echoes in eternity.....

The review i initially read on the Road attacks suggested that the guy using them did give them a fairly good thrashing (by sports touring standards), and he used 2 rears over a stretch of 8000 miles, added to that they are supposed to give the same sort of cornering as the Sport Attacks but just have a harder centre to the tyre. Live life to thge full, but keep the rubber on the road

Hi Just seen on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Motorcycle-Tyres-Continental-Road-Attack-Sports-Touring_W0QQitemZ8011321531QQcategoryZ21669QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem guys selling Road attack tyres £139 Pr. Might be of interest. Seems reasonable to me.

I finally got a pair of sport atacks fitted this weekend, I've only done about 20 miles on them, it's too cold and the roads are covered in frost so i won't be trying any heroic antics for a while.(what a wimp) I decided to go with Contis advice and fitted the 190 rear. They were not as cheap as some have been paying, these cost £175 fitted and balanced to loose wheels, but the tyre place is only 10 minutes up the road, the next cheapest was a round trip of 40 miles, so it's worth paying a few quid more for convinience.