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Continental Rear Tires
« on: December 29, 2018, 10:22:54 PM »

Has anyone used Contenental Rear Tires? I use 130mm 16".  I just ordered ME888 but after buying I read not so good mileage from them. I hope the 888 will be good, if not a need a backup plan. Thanks
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Re: Continental Rear Tires
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2018, 02:48:45 PM »

Don't get me started about Continental's .  For me (not to say you will) I had all sorts of problems,  the biggest was wobbling.

The bike would get into a smallish wobble between 70 and 80 mph  and on laine changing it would wobble in the 60 to 70 range unless I changed none aggressively.  I even had wobbling at 70 going into a long bend I had to slow back into mid 60 range for it to smooth out.
I found it did help to run 1 psi over max tyre pressure.  Got 11k out of them was glad to get them off the  bike.

Like I said that not to say you'll have the same problem.



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Re: Continental Rear Tires
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2018, 03:04:08 PM »

Ok thanks. Good to know.
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Re: Continental Rear Tires
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2018, 03:48:41 PM »

if mileage is what you're after, i think you'll be hard pressed to find anything that beats the american elite or mich cdr 2.
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Re: Continental Rear Tires
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2018, 10:40:07 PM »

American Elite 3 and Comander 2, I have used both and I can't break the 8k miles. Tire is 130mm wide the wider 200mm get better mileage due to stress is spread out over a larger area.
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Re: Continental Rear Tires
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2018, 11:24:28 PM »

i didn't notice that you're running an older bike with the skinnier tires.  the newer 180 tires are made with dual compound, which gives the extra life.  on the older 130 tires, i got 10-12k out of them before they needed replacing.
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