Is it just me or do the standard Pirelli's that come on the 630 take a very long time to warm up? Also does anybody have any experience wit Pirelli MT60's. Cheers, Chillybean.
Saying the stock Diablos are crap is speaking to highly of them. I really like my Bridgestone S20's on the bike. I think the important thing here is anything is better than the stock tires.
I LOVED the MT-60's on my SM610 as an all-around tire, did a lot of 50/50 rides with them and was impressed with them off road. Just too much money for the relatively low miles (I got about 3k out of the rear and 7k out of the front). I'm running Pilot Road 3's on it now, and couldn't be happier for street duties. The wet grip is ridiculous on them.
I haven't even done a canyon ride on my bike yet but in town the rear tire seems to break loose pretty easily. I'm doing a trackday on the stock tires this weekend....I used to run the pressures 30 front/30 rear when I did trackdays on my SV. Any tire pressure recommendations for this bike? I plan to get the conti SM tires next. Anyone tried them?
Are you still on the stock Diablos? I'd go somewhere around 25-26psi cold, that's what seemed to "work best" for me with those tires. Hurry up and burn those things up and chuck them in the garbage where they belong.
So I finished my trackday on the stock diablos....for me they did fine. My front wheel didn't slip at all on the tarmac. I did have rear wheel squirrelyness and hopping on occasion during braking but that went away as the tire warmed up. I did have some rear wheel spin exiting some turns but I thought that was fun I was suprised that the front tire wasn't sliding all over the place in the dirt section. Does the 630 have enough power to spin the rear tire when you have stickier rubber like a pilot power or diablo rosso?
You won't be able to "powerslide" so easily with the greater grip, and you'll be carrying more speed, so keep that in mind before you go launch yourself into a ditch... BTW, what pressure did you end up with on the Diablos?
Good points...don't want to superman!!! I ended up running them at 24/25. Like I said, they worked fine for me at the speeds I was going. I had only commuted before the trackday, so I was really just feeling out the bike. Maybe next time I'll go faster and get closer to the limits of the diablos
