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A week ago I was riding in low temps in pouring rain and I could feel them start to break out a little when leaning
That's a good thing in my books. At least they're reliable in terms of feedback. For me personally, that's a metric in how I gauge tyres. If I can feel it letting go a little, that gives me time to correct or let go. That time is valuable when combined with braking and I'll rely on the tyre for that information.
What's fucking fucking is when there's nothing from the tyre coming back through the bike.
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Yea I was concerned when temp started to drop, and it was less than +5’C on the road in the mornings with fog. In reality the tyres never warmed up but never lost grip at moderate speeds.
A week ago it was pouring with rain after dry days, the roads were diesel-spill clusterfucks. I was still riding like the roads were dry, and I could feel a bit of drifty loss of traction. It was very consistent. The more I leaned in the wet the more they let go, and on the occasional concentrated diesel patch there was a clear break in contact.
But days earlier on the torrential rain on the motorway at 75mph? No problem at all. They felt like an all-weather option. Felt horrid overall, but the Avons never gave me the fear.
pdlouche
Sounds terrifying. I have Avon Roadrider on the DR’s road wheel-set. No idea what we were running on the Bandits, but these Avon are very very grippy. In the dry they felt like you could ride the sidewalls.
A week ago I was riding in low temps in pouring rain and I could feel them start to break out a little when leaning, but at 90/90-21 and 110/100-18 it doesn’t take much. It was very consistent and responsive even for a relatively new rider like me.
As a new rider I mean, in the last 14 months I’ve done something like.... 7k miles or there abouts? All weather. But that’s almost exclusively on digestive biscuit tyres.
By the way, the Avons survived the M25, so they are ‘fine’ with constant surface changes ...!