• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Tires whats the hot ticket lately?

its a terrible shame, but very hard to get mitas in the us. they just dont want to offer here. the only mitas ever here are the winter frictions that people import. if they brought mitas here, we could have trelleborg again!
 
Kartwheel68 said:
The rim pins are for ISDE bikes where you have to do tire changes in 2 minutes. The tire, as long as it is inflated, will NOT spin on a rim with the pins. Any time I can I remove rim locks and use rim pins. In the past for rims that did not come with the holes for the pins, I have drilled the rim and put sheet metal screws in them. I also take a chisel and make the serrations on the inside lip of the rim much more aggressive to help hold the tire.

Metzler has been owned by Pirelli for about 15-20 years now, the knobby tires for both Pirelli and Metzler are made in the same tire factory in Brazil. The Metzler Unicross is similar to the Pirelli MT16 but the knobs are much taller on the MT16, and the one size the Unicross rear is available in is not really big enough for an open class bike.

There is not a more versatile tire than the MT16, especially the front. It is excellent in everything from bottomless mud and sand to blue groove hard pack. There may be very narrow use tires that might beat it in that specific narrow type of terrain, but nothing can beat it overall.
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good info, ill check em out. bigger knobs are good on big bores
 
I ordered the Pirelli m16 front tire. The bigger knobs the better for me so they don't wash out. Once I get to fondle it I may get more. I have the IRC M5B 140/18 for the rear for the 430cr. But that could change.
 
You will never buy another front tire. People resist trying it because it has an old school tread pattern and doesnt look "cool" like the modern fancy tread patterns, but everyone I have convinced to try one never gets anything else.
 
have you tried the 216 i have one MITE get a little dirt on it TODAY but it wont be much the mail mans not got me my pegs yet:cry:
 
troy deck said:
softer than a regular trials tire??? it dose get dry here an even the hard stuff has a layer of loose gravel trials tires are very common here I/T IH/T are the normal knobby in these parts you see quite a few vee rubber tacky tires and kenda [i think] GNCC STICKY SOMO is one big quarry youtube chadwick if you wana see it tell me what you think
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Here's a pic of the GT 257 with three wet rides and one dry ride on it. Maybe 20 hours total on my WR250:
gt257.jpg

Here's an MT43 (which is not a soft trials tire, but still a trials tire) with about 1000 miles of mixed on and off road on my TE511:
mt43.jpg

Don't get me wrong, I love the GT 257, but I'm saving it for winter (our winter is rain in the 40s - 50s) riding.

I'm currently running the MotoZ Mountain Hybrid, as our dry season has already started. It is turning out to be a pretty darn good tire. Holding up pretty well. If you like trials tires, this one could be pretty good for you.
 
Kartwheel68 said:
What is a 216? Never heard of it.
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That would be the Golden Tyre GT 216 AA front tire. I've got one on my 2 stroke, and I will be ordering one very soon for my 4 stroke. I will never run a different front tire for as long as they still sell them here in the states.
 
too close need pix s more to the side plus with your vast riding area you rack up miles a lot faster than i can the big local spot here is 3000 acres and has 82 miles of trail:thumbsdown: but hot showers:thumbsup: anybuddy tried a K787?
 
GT 216 looks like a copy of the Pirelli MXMS/MT32. Thats not a bad thing since the MT32 won a lot of world championships over the years.
 
Kartwheel68 said:
You will never buy another front tire. People resist trying it because it has an old school tread pattern and doesnt look "cool" like the modern fancy tread patterns, but everyone I have convinced to try one never gets anything else.
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no i know exactly what you mean from running the uni, thats an excellent tread pattern. if you say they have an even bigger lug i will give em a shot, they are about the same price! thanks for the tip
 
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