Mornin' All...
Interesting comments, which as it turns out high lights my point.
Avons...Yep know of em and I actually put a pair on a friends ABS 1100 more than 2 years ago and when I last spoke with him about 3 months ago, they were still on it and although he thought they were a bit hard and noisy, he was a happy chappy. But here's the thing...who sodding well brings them into the Country these days? Avon Australia certainly doesn't...in fact when I rang em I was told "
we don't have any tyres in at the moment and we certainly wont be bringing in and motorcycle tyres" >:( And the bloke I got the ones just mentioned has given up on them citing "
no support". I am told there is a small concern in Sydney that is bringing them in, but have yet to find a distributor here in Victoria. In any case given what I have just written in addition to what's cited on this thread, who'd want to go out of their way for the brand at this point?
Metz...Are Z8's replacing the Roadtec Z6's? if they are that looks as if it'll shut down another source of 160/70/17's
Battlax...I am presently running the second set of 021's on the bike I have here in Victoria, and I have to say the ones I have are not showing the rapid wear rates complained of to Team Moto...why...well I can only presume that it's know that all of the Bridgestone tyres I have used since 1997 on ABS 1100's come in varying grades of quality, which is noted by a letter of each of the tyres...the best go to OEM. So perhaps it just so happened that SE Qld got distributed a shyte batch?
Incidentally, if you want a set of the top spec Battlax you could get em from Honda...on order...and for the mere sum of approx $400 per tyre
OK, so where am I going with this, well I am a little peeved (no shyte). I think it is obvious that a decade ago Honda after deciding to follow most of the other manufacturers choose adapting the ABS variant 1300's to accommodate a lower profile rear tyre, which leave the ABS1100's somewhat alone, as it were. I say this as it is purported that the 160/70/17 is critical to the proper functioning of the ABS if and when it's activated. (interestingly, of the hundreds of thousand of clicks I have put astride ST1100's I have only ever needed to activate the ABS system twice...
and on both occasions it saved my bacon ). Makes sense I suppose if one wheel were to rotate at a different speed the the other then conceivably the ABS would (might), not work effectively.
So hence my original post of seeing if any ABS 1100 owners had ever bother to place a 60's series tyre on the rear.
I presently have a request in with the Service Manage of Honda MPE here in Melbourne to establish if Honda might offer a (yeah an extremely long shot I know
), of a ABS module mod....will wait and see.
Anyway, the problem I have is having an ABS 1100 sitting in my Sister-n-laws garage on the GC with a set of Battlax 020's on it with 18,000 clicks under them...and a Mate that can get me for a very reasonable price a set of Continental RoadAttack2's...so until I can figure out the
facts on tyre profile sizes for the ABS 1100's...you can guess the rest :(
Ciao, the can :)