Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:20:56 +0800 - Message No. 6193
From: "Seung"

Subject: which Trailwing? new trailmax?


Hello Martin, I feel that I should share my view on those Trailwings (and
perhaps offer an explanation why you get low life out of them)

My opinion : For street use there seem to be 2 types of tires for dual
purpose machines.
1.  Up to 650cc bikes  (these tires have smaller blocks of rubber, closely
spaced)
2.  651cc and above bikes.  (these have larger bolcks of rubber, like the
Enduro 4 or TW101/152)

As such, it looks like the TW47/48 has a very short life on an @ because the
knobs are small and thus easily shredded by the @'s heavy weight and higher
power.  I have those TW101/152 tires and have covered 13,000km and still
half the tread is there.  For the visual diff between TW47 and TW101, look
at :
http://www.atic.org/accessory/
BTW, the Honda recommended is the TW101/152 not the TW47/48.  There's a
sticker on my bike...............
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To the whole list : has anyone tried these Trailmax?

It seems like the current trend for large capacity dual purpose machines is
to have tires that look like these:
http://www.dunloptire.com/cycle/tires/trailmax.html
Other similar looking tires are : Michelin T66, Metzeler Tourance,

Yu Seung fr Singapore








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