Kawasaki Concours Forum
The C10, aka Kawasaki Concours - The Original => The Bike - C10 => Topic started by: sas mayhem on August 20, 2011, 12:57:03 AM
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Well this is long over due. I just came back from Riding the Dragon and I just wanted to due a reveiw on these tires. Last Feb-Mar time frame of this yr I replaced my tires with AVON Ultra II up front and Venom on the rear . I do have stock stock rims. So right now I have about 8,000 miles on them. They are wearing very well just by eyeballing it, it looks like I can streach them for another 4,000ish. All I can say about these tires is that there excellent on every front IMHO. What really got me thinking, was when I was heading to the mountains I got caught in a rain storm of biblical proportions. The bike was rock steady and never once slide or even protested at 67-70mph. Going in and out of tire ruts and changing lanes was a total breeze. Keep in mind I was not being cocky but the bike was very sure footed. The only reason I did finally pull over under an over pass was due to visor visability was down to zero. It was raining so hard no one was moving.
Taking the bike on the Tail of the Dragon and Cherohala Skyway on those tight swich back and long sweeping turns, the tires performance was OUTSTANDING. I honestly won't bother look at another brand of tire, for me these are the best combo, you can get.
Cheers
Ron
PS. This was not written to start some type of tire was, it's just my experiance.
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Thanks for the review Ron, these were the tires I was planning on installing next spring; your write up only helps confirm my choice. Oh, and good luck on that not starting a tire war thread! ;D :stirpot:
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Thanks for the review Ron, these were the tires I was planning on installing next spring; your write up only helps confirm my choice. Oh, and good luck on that not starting a tire war thread! ;D :stirpot:
I hear that Lee makes a mean motorcycle tire...
:stirpot:
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knight_mare, I have Storm ST Ultra 2 120/70ZR18 up front and
Venom X 150/80R16 in the rear
throb, keep your eye on deal online I got my set for 264.00 free shipping to my appartment from http://www.compacc.com/ (http://www.compacc.com/)
Cheers
Ron
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Best price I have ever found on any of these tires is here;
http://www.chaparral-racing.com/Product/avon-av55-storm-2-ultra-sport-touring-radial-front-tire/330-5580.aspx (http://www.chaparral-racing.com/Product/avon-av55-storm-2-ultra-sport-touring-radial-front-tire/330-5580.aspx)
Free shipping on anything over $149 too....
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this will probably be my next set of tires as well next spring. thanks for the review.
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Be careful on the Free 2 day shipping from Chaparral. Unless you live in CA, don't expect the tires to arrive in two days.
I bought a set of Avon (a Storm II front and a AV46 ST Rear) on 7/17/11 with the free two day shipping. After two phone calls, I was told that they had to come out of the California warehouse instead of the Midwest warehouse. The midwest location was out of stock on both. Also they had have free ground shipping instead of the free two day shipping. I got the front tire on 7/25/11 aad the rear came on 7/27/11. Far from two day shipping.
The prices were the best I found and I got them in time to get mounted before leaving for VT. If I had waited, it would have been a big problem.
I do like the tire combination. Handling is great! They seem to fall into the turn. Much better than the Dunlop 205 I had been using. I've got 4000 miles on them and the rear is starting to show a little wear. I guess 2800 miles of super slab will do that to most tires.