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Originally Posted by rossco572

surely the point is to have them ready now so we can be practising on them in the season build up, and not to be presented with a new integer in the equation that is your bike set up just prior to the first meeting? why are we using pirelli's? What do the riders and the series get from pirelli other than a sticker?

If you want to lose the will to live, do a search for all the other threads on "Tyres" and "DesmoDue" !!!

in short, and in no particular order, back in 2005 Pirelli under-wrote the Diablos (and presumably now the Rossos) as being suitable for racing our bikes on. No other manufacturer was prepared to do so at the time, although they may now, given that we will buy a couple of hundred tyres a year?

If you can get to lap record times on Diablos, then it might be worth trying Rossos to see if they offer any improvement, especially on a February trackday.

As I've always understood it, tyres COULD be bought from anywhere, it was just that Holbeach were able to offer a good price.

The point in my case being that I can get tyres supplied and fitted locally, at a time that suits me for not much more that a pair of tyres shipped from Holbeach that I then have to collect from a depot when I've missed the courier and then still have to pay someone to fit them...

And the sticker is handy for hiding gouges in the bellypan

PAul