I know there's a whole lot of post's on tires I've gone through several but I did not see much mention of dunlop...I need new tire's this year and a Shop not for from me is supposed to be having an awsome sale on dunlop's, I am a cheap a$$ so it fits but I also don't want to end up with poor preformance. So any one have experience with them, suggestions on model etc... I don't need racing tires just good all around daily use tires wet and dry. I do some touring but not as much as I would like of course.
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I'm unaware of anything that Dunlop makes for stock tire sizes other than the Dunlop D208sm which is a super-motard tire....
Quote from: TragicImage on June 10, 2007, 11:29:54 AM
I'm unaware of anything that Dunlop makes for stock tire sizes other than the Dunlop D208sm which is a super-motard tire....
The D208SM is not approved for fitment on the GS's stock rims.
Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on June 10, 2007, 11:52:37 AM
Quote from: TragicImage on June 10, 2007, 11:29:54 AM
I'm unaware of anything that Dunlop makes for stock tire sizes other than the Dunlop D208sm which is a super-motard tire....
The D208SM is not approved for fitment on the GS's stock rims.
neither is a "GSXR Tire".... but hey, people do it..... now where is that post....
There's not too much here on Dunlop tires because they don't make any tires in the OEM sizes for the GS500. There are however Dunlop tires suitable for use on the GS. The GT501 bias ply sport touring tires and the D205 sport touring radials both come in the 110/80 front and 140/80 rear sizes. Both have been used by other members of this board, I had a GT501 front years ago but not a rear GT501 and have not tried any of the D205. I have however used a few of both of these sizes on my GSs and they will fit on the GS500 and both are a proper fitment on the GS rims.
I used the Dunlop K291 and then the K491 rear touring tires on my old Hoindas for years and got 25-30k miles from them A k491 in the MT90-17 size will also fit the GS500, I tried one early on and soon discovered it just didn't want to corner as fast as the bike did. :laugh:
Tires I've used in over 120k GS500 miles:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v443/jcp8832/GS500tirelog.jpg
A 140/80 will raise the rear of the bike about 3/4-7/8" and the MT90 or 130/90 will raise the rear about 1" if your short.
I came to hate Dunlops when I had a '73 MGB GT with real wire wheels, not too many ways to make radials work with tubes. Dunlop had radials ostensibly designed to work with tubes, but they wore holes in the tubes regularly.
More recently, I had ordered a set of Bridgestones for my 4Runner, but they didn't come in in time, I ended up with a flat I didn't want to fix and the shop didn't tell me the tires I ordered weren't in until I was actually there, so I bit the bullet and let them install Dunlops. The Dunlops were one of the OEM tires for my year. Figured, after all these years, they can't still be that bad, I was just being silly.
Nope. They WALLOW around corners and squeal pleasantly on turns the previous set of tires wouldn't have even noticed. On hard maneuvers they feel like crayon. I hate them. I'll probably pay to have them changed before they're worn out. Never again.
Maybe their motorcycle tires are a different story, but I can't say that I care.
Thanks for the input, sounds like maybe the great deals probably not so great. I'll keep looking, I need tires this year but think i can wait a bit longer yet.
Different ? Tank bra? do they make one for the GS?
I have not used Dunlop tires but I do have a Kenda K671 150/70-17. the tire only cost me about $60 from bikebandit.com and I can grind the foot peg around corners. It seems like a decent tire for the price. just my $0.02