> Troy, remember the famous Rennsport streets?
Do I remember them? I went out and bought a pair of rears
for the mighty baby zook to use for trackdays, plus some
street miles afterwards just to see what all the fuss was
about.
>Two trackdays and the
> rest street miles (1900 with maybe 500 left).
My RS1 and RS2 combo's on the Honda went 2 trackdays, but by
1000 total miles were turning blue and squirrelly on street
riding, rear first, had no urge to push the front to see
what happened there.
>
> How do you suppose Larry Xlax got 6000 miles out of these
Rennsports?
I have not a single clue. He has been proclaiming the
superiority and life for quite some time, but I didn't have
an idea how he did it, particularly after I ran the race
tires. I didn't figure there was enough difference between
the race and street versions to allow a 5000 mile usage gap
between the 2. Hell, after running the Rennsport race tires
on the mighty baby zook, I STILL don't know how he did it.
My mighty 65HP can just rag the hell outta the rear RS2
tire, part of the reason I was willing to trade off some
traction for life with the street version....plus I was
curious if I could get 6000 useful miles out of them.
> No complaints about traction but mileage is typical at
best for this
> type tire. Larry may be smooth but would that account for
3X
> difference? Even if his roads are less abrasive, hmmm.
The only way I could imagine it would be if he spends all
his time puttering around like Mike with a plug wire missing
and a light throttle hand. I took Rennsport race tires to
VIR and Laguna, VIR with new wonderful pavement, and Lagunas
wasn't bad either, and all it took were one of those, a day
at Second Creek ( rougher pavement ) and 1000 street miles
and you were done,outstanding traction wise. I currently
have about 2000 street miles on a rear rs2 Rennsport and the
same on a front on the mighty zook, the tread on the silly
things lasts forever but the traction is gone, particularly
at the rear. I'm just longevity testing them at this point
in time, wouldn't dream of actually leaning on the things at
this point.
>
> BTW, I'm of the impression even an 010/020 combo on the
GSXR would not
> slide around on the street but the new 014s seem prudent.
Maybe 3500
> miles if I'm lucky.
I think 3500 miles on a literbike on any tire is pretty damn
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