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time to pick a new tire

meijerclassics

meijerclassics

Husqvarna
AA Class
The stock Metzelers that came mounted on my 08 TE610 are worn out, so now its time to get some new tires. I actually liked the stock tires, but am thinking my next tires should be more of a 40 street/60 dirt since I do a lot of street riding on my daily commute to work.
I'm looking at two particular tires:
the Continental TKC80 twinduro, or the Dunlop D909RR.
Any opinions on those two tires would be appreciated.
 
If you mean the 908rr, personally I HATED those tires.

They are hard to mount, expensive, the front wobbles violently on Ca's grooved pavement, the rear rubbed the muffler, and it was hard to turn. Only comes in 140

That being said, the grip is very good, and they are very tough, the front is basically a run flat tire.

The TKC, I've never run on the 610 but I did like it on the Dakar. But it was expensive because it did not last very long.

Personally on the 610 I like the Dunlop 606. I have a 120 now and might try a 130 next time.
 
I ran the TKC80's that were on my 610 when I first purchased it. They handled great on the road, not bad in the wet either. I've never ridden a knobby that I could lean that far over on the ashpalt :eek:, pretty cool IMO :thumbsup: As far as offroad? well, I think they verge on terrible, if not down right treacherous on anything besides gravel and really hard dirt. I spent one afternoon learning the "offroad" characteristics of the Continentals and don't care to repeat that event, ever...

As far as wear? I got about 1700mi out of the rear before I took it off and it still had about 1/4 tread left. The front had around 50% but was beginning to cup just a little. I was not kind to the tires and ran them pretty hard everywhere.

cheers,

Mike
 
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