Dunlop TT 100 GP- "Dunlop, your tyres are shit".
Seriously - Brand new tyre. 8000K - absolutely fucked. Worn to the legal minimum. It's consistent with the experiences with other users of the same tyre. Metzler users on the other hand, report 24,000 - 32,000K's from their tyres. And I thought "Oh surely not! They can't possibly be getting 3 or 4 times the distance of the Dunlop tyre?" And given that the two different brands are around the same price, I booked the bike in for a tyre change, for a new Metzler - about 2 weeks down the track. And the very same day - late in the afternoon, some guy comes up to me, and we strike up a conversation, and asks, "Has this got Dunlops on it? Next comment: "Oh they are really shit - they don't last long at all - you want to get rid of them." Followed by: "You want to put Metzlers X-ers on them." - which was the exact same type and model - as I had ordered. He continued, "I had a set of them on my bike, and had the rear tyre on for over 5 y...