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The Dunlop Roadsmart III compared to Michelin PR2/PR4GT Dilemma
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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Lumberg" data-source="post: 1396380" data-attributes="member: 87479"><p>The rear (RSIII) was incredibad. Slipperier han any other tire on any bike Ive ever had. Just slid with the slightest provocation. In the cold and wet. Simply very slippery in the warm and wet. And perfectly normal in the warm and dry. Put them on at 65739. At 70646, the rear is mostly square, like a car tire, with some groove left. The front looks like witchcraft. Profile is the same as the day it was put on, and tread and groove depth look like the tire has well over half its life left. We shall see.</p><p></p><p>I wont voluntarily run a RSIII in cooler months ever again. Mine were comically bad. But in warm and dry weather, they perform like other tires. All my many sets and flavors of PRs performed well under any condition whatsoever. In cold and/or wet, I contemplated removing the RSIII's when they were still pretty much new. That bad. Now that I've run them in warmer weather, I could see buying again for a summer tire. I'll never again have one on any bike I own for cold weather. It was like coating the rear in cooking oil. Keep in mind that I'm merely assuming that warmer weather is the reason the tire started functioning as a proper tire. It could be whatever made it unstable just wore off as the miles stacked up. I've run all kinds of PR's, metzelers, even a few bridgestones. Some were better than others, but they were all just tires. Never had suck like I had with RSIII.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill Lumberg, post: 1396380, member: 87479"] The rear (RSIII) was incredibad. Slipperier han any other tire on any bike Ive ever had. Just slid with the slightest provocation. In the cold and wet. Simply very slippery in the warm and wet. And perfectly normal in the warm and dry. Put them on at 65739. At 70646, the rear is mostly square, like a car tire, with some groove left. The front looks like witchcraft. Profile is the same as the day it was put on, and tread and groove depth look like the tire has well over half its life left. We shall see. I wont voluntarily run a RSIII in cooler months ever again. Mine were comically bad. But in warm and dry weather, they perform like other tires. All my many sets and flavors of PRs performed well under any condition whatsoever. In cold and/or wet, I contemplated removing the RSIII's when they were still pretty much new. That bad. Now that I've run them in warmer weather, I could see buying again for a summer tire. I'll never again have one on any bike I own for cold weather. It was like coating the rear in cooking oil. Keep in mind that I'm merely assuming that warmer weather is the reason the tire started functioning as a proper tire. It could be whatever made it unstable just wore off as the miles stacked up. I've run all kinds of PR's, metzelers, even a few bridgestones. Some were better than others, but they were all just tires. Never had suck like I had with RSIII. [/QUOTE]
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