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Tyres - Tread Patterns
« on: 06 August 2010, 12:58:44 »
What tread patterns work best with the Omega.

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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #1 on: 06 August 2010, 13:11:23 »
Slick in the dry full wets in the wet.  ;)
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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #2 on: 06 August 2010, 13:21:04 »
Im liking these weird ones

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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #3 on: 06 August 2010, 13:22:52 »
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Slick in the dry full wets in the wet.  ;)

Heard a story a few years ago where a passenger had been taken out in a fully works prepared Audi Quatro rally car, they were out for a 20 minute "Joy ride" on full tarmac slicks when they were pulled by police.

When questioned the driver didnt deny anything and was just about to be read his rights when the passenger leaned forward and said "it's all right lads I am dealing with it"  appaerenly it was someone who was high up in the "Force" and he said we're just road testing it.
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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #4 on: 06 August 2010, 16:36:40 »
Must confess I tend to end up with Asymmetric or Rotational tyres... Not really a deliberate choice but I suppose if you're buying reasonable quality that is what you tend to get :-/
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« Reply #5 on: 06 August 2010, 17:11:23 »
im running the last ones vredestien sessanta very impressed quiet and very grippy also as a bonus very quiet 90 a corner
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« Reply #6 on: 06 August 2010, 17:26:07 »
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im running the last ones vredestien sessanta very impressed quiet and very grippy also as a bonus very quiet 90 a corner


ypu, good performace and price  :y
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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #7 on: 06 August 2010, 17:29:49 »
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Im liking these weird ones


I like the tread pattern, but surely they would have to mould them in opposing pairs for the pattern tread pattern to work correctly.
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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #8 on: 06 August 2010, 17:46:17 »
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Im liking these weird ones


I like the tread pattern, but surely they would have to mould them in opposing pairs for the pattern tread pattern to work correctly.


strangely not!

that is how they are designed to be  :y
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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #10 on: 06 August 2010, 18:41:21 »
I really do like them, but would allways wonder how them would perform in heavy/standing rain when one side off the car is pushing water one way and the opposite side of the car pushing water the other way, and even moreso at the point a car starts to aquaplane.
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« Reply #11 on: 06 August 2010, 21:43:20 »
Buy em and try em  :y
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Re: Tyres - Tread Patterns
« Reply #12 on: 06 August 2010, 22:27:02 »
the more work i do with tyres, the more I'm convinced that the tread pattern is lttle more than fashion.
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« Reply #13 on: 06 August 2010, 22:53:57 »
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the more work i do with tyres, the more I'm convinced that the tread pattern is lttle more than fashion.

the fact the tyres with opposing tread patterns proves exactly that imo, bike tyres need "a tread" in the wet, the pattern makes bog all odds. Full wets have a heavy tread form two reasons, 1, to shift water, 2, to allow the tread blocks to move and generate heat making the compound more sticky, which is primarily what makes wets so grippy in the wet, not the tread itself. The second reason has bog all to do with road tyres as they would melt in dry conditions.

The percentage of tyre/tread or gap in the contact patch may come into it, but only to make the tyre more suited to wet or dry conditions, track day tyres and winter tyres for example? The shape of the grooves? makes no odds it seems to me.

So yes pure fashion imo. Tyres manufacturers making the most of a legal requirement. And why not?
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« Reply #14 on: 06 August 2010, 23:50:39 »
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the more work i do with tyres, the more I'm convinced that the tread pattern is lttle more than fashion.

the fact the tyres with opposing tread patterns proves exactly that imo, bike tyres need "a tread" in the wet, the pattern makes bog all odds. Full wets have a heavy tread form two reasons, 1, to shift water, 2, to allow the tread blocks to move and generate heat making the compound more sticky, which is primarily what makes wets so grippy in the wet, not the tread itself. The second reason has bog all to do with road tyres as they would melt in dry conditions.

The percentage of tyre/tread or gap in the contact patch may come into it, but only to make the tyre more suited to wet or dry conditions, track day tyres and winter tyres for example? The shape of the grooves? makes no odds it seems to me.

So yes pure fashion imo. Tyres manufacturers making the most of a legal requirement. And why not?

Ok, so I am vain.  but I do like things to look equal.

Wonder what 225/55/16's cost for the elite.  If not daft money I might try some.
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